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Battle of the St. Lawrence: Airman down

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

At 3:35 a.m. on July 6, 1942, four P-40 Kittyhawk fighters scrambled out of the air station at Mont-Joli, Que., and went U-boat hunting. One of them never returned.

Near the end of their two-hour patrol, Kittyhawk AK915, piloted by Squadron Leader Jacques Chevrier, went down in up to 70 metres of water, less than five kilometres off Cap-Chat, Que. The wreck was never found, a cause was never determined and Chevrier’s remains were not recovered.

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Ships battle in the American Revolutionary War off Nova Scotia

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Back in the days before steam and internal combustion engines when ships were propelled by wind, strange sails on the horizon could spell trouble—especially in war time.

Three months before the last battle of the American Revolutionary War (or War of Independence, depending on the point of view) in July 1781, a British convoy off present-day Nova Scotia proved that point.

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