Description
Mr. Fitzmaurice explains why he was proud of his service to Canada.
Anthony Fitzmaurice
Mr. Fitzmaurice was born on a farm in Mount Carmel, Ontario. He grew up in London, Ontario, where he attended school. After graduating from college in 1943 he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and received his training in Mitchells and then Liberators in Calgary, Alberta. After training he flew from Dorval, Quebec, to Algiers. Mr. Fitzmaurice flew in a Liberator with 357 squadron flying guerillas in to Burma, China and Thailand. He returned to Canada on the <em>Aquitania</em> in March of 1946.
Transcript
Interviewer: Are you proud of the service that you and your generation did for Canada?
Oh yes, yeah. What we did for, for Canada as a nation, they say we became a nation at Ypres but we fortified that, that thought again during, during this war, or during World War Two. Because we, we developed I think, something within, within the people in Canada, within, within myself. I felt, "I'm proud to be a Canadian," you know, "I'm proud for what we did." And, and I look at other nations, and I was talking to people about it, I said, "Look it, we came here, we, we, we volunteered," and the guy said, "No, no you were conscribed." And I said, "No, no we volunteered to come here." And as, and he said, "You know, as much as that speaks a lot, a lot for you people."