I encountered Saburo Sakai’s biography as Japan’s greatest living fighter pilot as a teenager at a used bookstore. I bought … More
Tag: wwii
The Tragic Sinking of the Lisbon Maru
I’m hoping to complete this writing in time for Remembrance Day 2025, only two days away, so that we could … More
The Siege of Malta (1942) – Part 1
There is a unique motorsports bookstore that I would frequent every time I visited Toronto as a teenager. And since … More
A Sherman Tank named “Bomb!”
This is a story about a Canadian Sherman Tank that survived the war, fighting every day from D-Day until the … More
George E. Stewart, DFC – Hamiltonian, Mosquito combat pilot, anti Communist Chinese patriot
I belong to the front end of Generation X and often wondered if our generation would be as willing and … More
