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The March/April 2021 issue of Legion Magazine updates the saga of the Avro Arrow, revisits the battle of the Saint Eloi craters in WW I, and explores the role of Canadian-made army trucks in WW II.

Also in the issue: medical advances from the First World War; the battle of Kapyong, Korea; and the aftermath of the Gulf War. And more!

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Squabbling over Vancouver Island

Story by Sharon Adams

In January 1790, 27 years after France ceded Canadian territory to Britain at the end of the Seven Years’ War, it looked as though the world’s leading colonial power was going to have to battle with Spain over Canada’s Pacific Coast.

The first Europeans to set foot on Vancouver Island were members of Captain James Cook’s expedition looking for the Northwest Passage in 1778. Cook had been told not to step on Spanish toes, for fear Spain might side with the Americans in the revolutionary war.

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Rising social media censorship hampers
war-crimes investigations

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

An accelerating trend among social media platforms to take down online content they deem too violent or graphic is hampering war-crimes investigations and other important investigations, says a top human-rights organization.

Often removed at the behest of governments, Human Rights Watch says the material is not being archived in ways that are accessible to investigators and researchers looking to hold criminals to account.

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January 14, 1942

A 160-kilometre-wide strip along the coast of British Columbia is defined
as a “protected area” and a curfew is imposed for every person of Japanese origin.

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Propaganda for Christmas

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

Lou Bailey pulls the leaflet from his stash of Korean War memorabilia—a box filled with photographs and mementoes of the seven eventful months the Iroquois, Ont., native spent driving supply trucks in the disputed territories of the Korean Peninsula almost 70 years ago.

“That’s what we got at Christmastime,” said Bailey, 92, handing over the one-page document.

On one half of the remarkably preserved paper is a now-famous David Douglas Duncan photograph of a dirty, miserable U.S. Marine huddled with his meagre rations against the cold of a winter near Chosin. On the other is a Rockwellian-style image of a happy family assembling around a table laden with Christmas turkey.

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Keeping the peace along the Suez Canal

Story by Sharon Adams

After decades of disagreement, Egypt nationalized and seized control of the Suez Canal in July 1956, sinking ships to plug the shipping route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

The canal had been regulated and operated under an international system since the Convention of Constantinople of 1888. The British considered the canal crucial, its closure an economic threat. France backed its ally Israel, whose cargo ships traversing the canal had been routinely searched and seized by Egypt.

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December 25, 1941

Hong Kong surrenders. Survivors face nearly four years in brutal Japanese prisoner of war camps.

Watch our latest Military Moments | The Fall of Hong Kong

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