29th Canadian Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2016 4:20 am
My grand father was on MTB 463. A/B Clifford Brown, RCNVR was his name. Just interested if any Canadians here or at least some with knowledge of Canada and Canadians contribution back then. Sadly, most of my family from that era are gone now. I have two paternal aunts left and two aunts by marriage that all married WWII veterans. All my grand parents, on both sides served in WWII.
http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/mtb/crew463.htm my grand father with his mates in 1944.
Anyway, back when I started school. We learned about Remembrance Day and its meaning. Veterans even spoke to us in our classrooms. Now the kids get the day off! Not to be anti-American, just 99% of what we hear about WWII, is American centric. I want to start taking the kids in my family to museums and teach them their personnel connection to that history.
The fate of MTB 463: http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMC_MTB-463.htm
I'm a big supporter of Canada's legions poppy fund campaign. I've donated every time I see the young cadets out in front of stores with poppies. One of the oldest of my generations kids in my family is my nephew he will seven in Feb........ I don't want to scare him, but do want the young generation like him to grow up knowing what my grand parents did for them. Fact if MTB 466 didn't pluck my grand father out of the English Channel on D-Day, I might not be writing this now. I want all the kids in my family to think like this on Remembrance Day.
http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/mtb/crew463.htm my grand father with his mates in 1944.
Anyway, back when I started school. We learned about Remembrance Day and its meaning. Veterans even spoke to us in our classrooms. Now the kids get the day off! Not to be anti-American, just 99% of what we hear about WWII, is American centric. I want to start taking the kids in my family to museums and teach them their personnel connection to that history.
The fate of MTB 463: http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMC_MTB-463.htm
I'm a big supporter of Canada's legions poppy fund campaign. I've donated every time I see the young cadets out in front of stores with poppies. One of the oldest of my generations kids in my family is my nephew he will seven in Feb........ I don't want to scare him, but do want the young generation like him to grow up knowing what my grand parents did for them. Fact if MTB 466 didn't pluck my grand father out of the English Channel on D-Day, I might not be writing this now. I want all the kids in my family to think like this on Remembrance Day.