Pushing your luck
Heroes Remember
Pushing your luck
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Description
During a fight, taking a direct hit was one way of getting out of a bad situation.
Raymond Smith
Raymond Smith was born on July 31st 1920 near Niagara-on-the-Lake. Mr Smith lost his mother as a young boy and during the Depression he worked raising hogs and cattle. When war broke out he decided to join the army, which gave him a much needed raise from five dollars a month breaking horses, to a dollar thirty a day. He got the call for training camp in Regina where he became a driving instructor. He recalls arriving from training camp to England on July 31st 1941. Mr. Smith was an army tank sergeant during the war when he met his wife and they married in 1943 while he was on leave in Manchester, England. After the war, Mr Smith returned home on April 2nd 1946 and worked as a truck driver and later at O'Keefe Brewery.
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- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Duration:
- 1:02
- Person Interviewed:
- Raymond Smith
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- Second World War
- Branch:
- Army
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