On To Victory

 The work of battlefield medics, doctors, and nurses during the Second World War is profiled here.

The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion jumped in behind enemy lines late in the war and reached further into Germany than any other Canadian unit, meeting Soviet soldiers at Weimar.

During the war, Canadian servicemen captured in battle in Europe ended up as prisoners of war. Some of them would take part in the events later called the Great Escape.

The Pacific theatre was not as extensive as the Atlantic and European theatre for Canadian forces, but they were out there, until the end of the war, when on the same day Americans dropped an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, pilot Lieutenant Hampton Gray engaged and sank a Japanese ship, losing his life in the effort and winning the Victoria Cross.

This wall is filled with images of the end of the war in the Pacific. A tile from Hiroshima, marked by the atomic bomb, is displayed at left.

For many Canadians in Europe, the war ended with the liberation of the Netherlands, which resulted in an enduring and deep friendship between the two countries.

This is an artifact well worth exhibiting.