Some British millennials think
Battle of Britain was Viking invasion: survey

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

Forty-four per cent of respondents to a recent British survey had no idea what the Battle of Britain was. A third of those aged 18-24 did know what it was, but another 30 per cent admitted they had no idea about the 1940 air battle that saved the islands from Nazi occupation.

Two-thirds of millennials who responded to the survey confused it with other military or political events:

• 12 per cent of respondents aged 18-24 believed it to be a First World War fight for supremacy over the English Channel;
• nine per cent said it was the civil war fought between England and Scotland in 1646;
• six per cent called it a Viking invasion;
• and three per cent said it was the 2019 general election.

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The Canadian Corps reunites for a big bash

Story by Sharon Adams

On the weekend of Aug. 4, 1934, more than 90,000 veterans—from every corner of Canada and some from Australia, France, New Zealand and the United States—converged on Toronto for a massive Canadian Corps reunion.

The event coincided with the 20th anniversary of the start of the First World War and against the backdrop of summer celebrations of the city’s centenary.

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August 6, 1945

The first atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese industrial city of Hiroshima.

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