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A demonstration of NATO presence
Mr. Murray discusses the two principal roles of the Canadian Navy.
In Iroquois I was the Commanding Officer
Mr. Murray describes rising to the rank of Squadron Commander and generalizes about Canadian theatres of operation.
Blown Up With Gunfire
Mr. Fisk describes sweeping up and disabling German mines.
The Age of the Zoot Suiters
Mr. Fisk describes his call up and a clash with Zoot Suiters in Montreal.
Everybody's Doing It
Mr. Fisk discusses his reasons for enlisting.
Service on a old US commissioned Destroyer
Mr. Wight talks about transferring from his first corvette, to an old US First World War four-stacker destroyer that was given to the British Navy from the Americans.
His first ship
Mr. Wight talks about his first assignment to a ship in the British navy. He talks about how a sailor finds his new ship and the protocol to board the ship.
The trip overseas
The journey across the Atlantic took Mr. Wight nine days. He sailed aboard the troop ship Lady Rodney. It took less than 24 hours for Mr. Wight to realize what he had gotten himself in for, as he was exposed to his first air raid.
Why he joined
Mr. Wight, who was not quite 18 talks about the reasons of why he volunteered for service in the British Armed Forces.
The Triangle run and service in the St. Lawrence.
Mr. Carroll describes routes that he sailed on in the Atlantic. His service also brought him into the St. Lawrence bay where enemy submarines were known to frequent.
Sinking of a sub, "maybe"
Submarines could be a hard target to confirm sinking. They could try to trick the navy into thinking it had sunk it by releasing debris and oil from its torpedo tubes. Mr Carroll describes a night that the ship he was on with the HMCS Sackville, a corvette, were credited with a "maybe" in the sinking of an enemy sub.
Who wants to remember that?
Mr. Stewart describes the desperation of the hungry in Bremerhaven, Germany.
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