A 268 Squadron composite reconnaissance photograph shows the landings by the British 231st Infantry Brigade at Anselles, France, on D-Day. Note the vehicles moving away on the road from the beach. (EYES OF THE INVASION)

Vivid: A Canadian pilot describes his bird’s-eye view of D-Day

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Tuesday, June 6, 1944, would be forever etched in the memory of Canadian Flight-Lieutenant Gordon Lloyd Gibson, a Mustang fighter pilot who flew operations over the Normandy beaches in support of history’s greatest seaborne invasion.

Attached to 268 Squadron, Royal Air Force, the 24-year-old Toronto native flew 37 tactical missions between May and August 1944, none more memorable than those of that stormy day in June when 160,000 Allied troops began what their supreme commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, called The Great Crusade.

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Lyman Carter shooting a wild hog. (Wikipedia)

Hog Hysteria: The U.S.-British confrontation over Canadian livestock

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American farmer Lyman Cutlar had a pig problem.

In 1859, having settled on San Juan Island—land contested between the British Empire and the United States near Vancouver Island—he encountered swine eating his vegetables. These weren’t just any old hogs, however, but ones belonging to the ever-influential Hudson’s Bay Company, a British-founded institution that had long acted as the regional powerhouse.

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