My VAC Account
My VAC AccountUnder the blazing Afghan sun, amid sandbags and shellfire, Corporal Matt Luloff found time to write songs.
“It was a great outlet, it helped me make sense of everything that was going on around me.”
As a member of the Task Force Kandahar battle group, Luloff did security, navigated fighting patrols on foot in the Panjwai-Zharey district and, at the end of the tour, transported troops along the world’s then most dangerous road —Highway 1 from Kandahar Airfield.
On 24 December 1955, US Air Force Colonel Shoup, Director of Operations at CONAD (Continental Air Defence Command), received a call in his office in Colorado Springs. This was no ordinary call. It was coming in on one of the top secret phone lines. Colonel Shoup answered the phone expecting it to be the Pentagon or a four-star general.
"Are you really Santa Claus?", a tiny voice asked.
Ms. Fuchs speaks about the idea of being a woman in the military and how over time she became easily accepted in the position of driver.
Mr. Snell explains the process he went through in becoming part of the crew on the HMCS Athabaskan and the work required in a short period of time before embarkment.
Realizing the burning oil fires were close, Mr. Mellor describes the sights from on board the ship with the smell and foggy surroundings.
Contrary to some media reports, everyone worked as a team and was focused on the duties at hand.
Mr. Bathurst recalls embarking from the port of Halifax and remembers the emotions felt by the sailors in seeing the support of all the people as they bid farewell.
Mr.Ethell talks about being in the Middle East at the start of the Persian Gulf War.
This video offers an overview of the air operations of the Canadian Armed Forces during the Gulf War in January 1991.
Watch Curator Jennifer Gamble present D-Day artifacts that are housed in the Naval Museum of Halifax.
