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1 CSSBN, veteran interviews
CA ACU TMM F0098-S0009 · Series · 2002
Part of Michel Wyczynski / Bernd Horn Canadian Airborne Research Collection

Transcripts of accounts and recollections of 15 Canadian veterans regarding their personal experiences and observations during their service with the FSSF, 1942-1944. The veterans are: Vernon J. Doucette, D.M. Lloyd Dunlop, Eugene Forward, Bert Hopkins, Joe T. Jamieson; Peter Kroll, William, Sam McGee, Paul Schoeler, Charlie Mann, John Rowe, Paul Schoeler, Peter Smith, Bill Story, Jim Summerside, and George Wright.
A veterans “quote list” organized by subject matter from our interview records documenting their personal experiences during their service with the FSSF, 1942-1944.
Two articles on the 1 CSSBN role and service with the FSSF, 1942-1944.

CA ACU TMM F0098-S0001 · Series · 1940-2010
Part of Michel Wyczynski / Bernd Horn Canadian Airborne Research Collection

Consists of multi-media records that document the Battalion’s administrative activities with The Minister of National Defence; the Chief of Defence Staff; NDHQ staff, Ottawa; CMHQ staff, London, England; 6th Airborne Headquarters, Adlershot, England; Battalion and sub-unit airborne/parachute training in Canada; The U.S., Fort Benning, Georgia; Aldershot, England; Combat operations, D-Day jump, 6 June 1944 and subsequent operations in Normandy, France; Emergency deployment and operations in the Ardennes, “The Battle of the Bulge”, Belgium; Deployment and operations to Holland; the Rhine Jump, 22 March 1945; Advance into Germany and the race to Wismar; repatriation to Canada and the Battalion’s disbandment.