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Box contains photocopies of military documents, correspondence, and intelligence reports pertaining to the 1st Canadian Special Service Force’s preparation, deployment, and campaign in Italy and France. This includes correspondence between the Canadian and U.S. militaries, Department of National Defence, etc., as well as a significant amount of field reports on the progress made in the France and Italy campaigns.

Box predominately contains photocopies of military documents, memos, and reports specifically pertaining to the Canadian Parachute Battalions in France 1944, post-D-Day. This includes debriefings, status and operation reports, strength inventories, War Office meetings, war diaries, as well as training syllabuses and information/documents pertaining to additional training and coursework undertaken by the Parachute Battalions. In addition, the box contains documents pertaining to the rest of the Canadian Parachute Battalion’s campaign in France, including reports on fighting in the Ardennes, 1944-1945.

Box contains photocopies of military documents, correspondence, and intelligence reports pertaining to the 1st Canadian Special Service Force’s preparation, deployment, and campaign in Italy and France. This includes correspondence between the Canadian and U.S. militaries, Department of National Defence, etc., as well as a significant amount of field reports on the progress made in the France and Italy campaigns.

Box predominately contains photocopies of military documents, memos, and reports pertaining to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion's deployments in Holland and Germany, 1945. This includes reports, operations, war diaries, etc., as well as a significant amount of documents tied to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion’s contributions and role in Operation Varsity (also known as Operation Plunder).

Box predominately contains photocopies of military documents, memos, and reports pertaining to the status and role of the 1st Parachute Battalion in the aftermath of victory in Europe 1945. This includes official dispatch documents to reassign the battalion to the Pacific theatre, maintain their overseas command under the British 6th Airborne, and their return to Canada. In addition, box contains firsthand accounts of returning soldiers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, as well as a significant amount of newspaper clippings featuring articles focusing on their return to Canada.

The Bob Bergen Fonds consists of materials gathered by Bergen in his capacity as a staff writer for the Calgary Herald. In particular, the fonds contains the results of several Access to Information Act requests made by Bergen in the late 1990’s regarding the closure of CFB Calgary in 1998 and the deaths of Canadian Forces members Neil McKinnon and Rick Wheeler during training exercises at CFB Suffield in April, 1992 and March, 1995 respectively.
The fonds is divided into 3 series:

1. Access to Information Act requests.
2. Correspondence
3. Newspaper clippings