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Join up to the Canadian Navy and basic training
Mr. Pellerin talks of the journey and reason he and a friend of his travelled to St. John, New Brunswick, to join the Canadian Navy. He then describes the
Service aboard a British Destroyer
Mr. Pellerin talks about the hasty placement of him aboard a British ship sailing out of Halifax harbour. The HMS Caldwell was used for convoy protection crossing the North Atlantic.
How a depth charge works
A sailor needed to know what and how a depth charge worked aboard a ship assigned to protect a convoy crossing the North Atlantic. Mr. Pellerin describes what a depth charge was and how it was able to be set to explode at different depths when looking for an enemy submarine.
VE Day in Halifax
Mr. Pellerin was in Halifax at the end of the war in Europe and remembers the VE- Day riots. He describes his view of the incidents that took place.
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