The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada is a must see for anyone interested in military history. The displays of equipment and vehicles is impressive and covers the entire scope of Canada’s military history from the First Nations and Colonial times to the modern age. My previous blog covered the majority of the display halls, but my favourite part of the…
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The Tiger of Vimoutiers
June 1st, 2012 Just outside the French town of Vimoutiers in Western France (an hour South East of Caen) is a very rare sight. A massive World War Two era German Tiger I tank (Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. E)! This was something I certainly had never seen before and being a military history buff I went off the major…
Battle of the Bulge 1944
Over the years I had read a lot about the “Battle of the Bulge” that took place in the heavily forested Ardennes area of the Wallonia region in Eastern Belgium in the Winter of 1944/45. On my recent trip to Belgium I hired a car from Luxembourg and travelled through the major locations of this battle and associated fortifications,…
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