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- 32nd President of the United States: Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT
- 35th President of the United States: John Fitzgerald KENNEDY
- 37th President of the United States: Richard Milhous NIXON
- 41st President of the United States: George Herbert Walker BUSH
- General of the Army: Douglas MacARTHUR
- Draft: George CALDER
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CANADIAN
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ROLL OF HONOUR
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- Canadian Military
Overall Canadian Enlisted:
730,000
Source: Armchair Reader World War II & Veterans Affairs Canada
Canadian Army
400,000
Royal Canadian Air Force
249,000
Royal Canadian Navy
95,000
Canadian Military Nursing Service
4,480
Overall Deaths
43,600
Source: Canadian War Museum & Veterans Affairs Canada
Wounded in action
54,000
Prisoners of war
9,000
Army deaths
23,000
Air Force deaths
17,000
Navy deaths
2,000
Merchant Navy deaths
1,600
Nursing Sisters deaths
17
Civilian deaths
1,600
Canadian casualty rate0.38%
[Stats provided are for general information purposes only.]
07
05, 2024
Victory in Europe (VE Day)
"Germany Surrenders" unconditionally to the Allies 7th May 1945 at Reims, France.
12
05, 2024
International Nurses Day
...is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.
02
06, 2024
Canadian Armed Forces Day
Canada celebrates Armed Forces Day annually on the first Sunday in June, a celebration of Canada's armed services, their heritage, and their personnel.
15
08, 2024
Victory in the Pacific Day
V-J Day. The Formal Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945
Updated
18-08-2023
Picture: Header, Original Caption: Down the ramp of a Coast Guard Landing barge Yankee soldiers storm toward the beach-sweeping fire of Nazi defenders in the D-Day Invasion of the French Coast. Troops ahead may be seen lying flat under the deadly machine gun resistance of the Germans. Soon the Nazis were driven back under the overwhelming Invasion forces thrown in from Coast Guard and Navy amphibious craft.
[Courtesy of National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures (RDSS)(513173)] 
(Edited: Artistic Blur by Graeme Watson, 2016)
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