How a terror group rooted in ancient text and prophesies used the apocalyptic properties of water in its global war.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
Reinhard Hardegen: Last of the U-boat aces
He ranked No. 24 on the list of Germany’s WWII U-boat aces but, in sheer chutzpah, few could compare with Reinhard Hardegen. Hardegen died in Germany on June 9 at age 105, the last of a breed both reviled and respected for preying on all manner of Allied ships from beneath the waves—a cloak of invisibility that offered them large measures of both risk and reward.
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
Resurrecting the memory of a WWII pilot
For years, it was my favourite photograph in the rather extensive album my father assembled chronicling his time overseas as a medical officer with the RCAF during the Second World War. The notation scrawled on the back of the picture in my dad’s unmistakable handwriting identifies the pilot as Flight-Lieutenant W.S. Johnston and places the location and date at Biggin Hill, December 1943. But who was he? Where did he come from? And what became of him?
Here is the article at Legion Magazine.
