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RECOMMENDED READING
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| 5 Section, 4 Platoon, B Company, 1 Canadian Parachute
Battalion. I had the pleasure of knowing "Doc" Warnock. (3rd
from left in back). |
I don't know why it is fuzzy. Click on it for a clearer view. |
| "Billets we took over near Uzelen April 22nd 45" 1
Cdn Para Bn in Germany. There is a paratrooper standing guard with a rifle in front of a
German sentry box. The jeep driving out is from another unit in the 6th Airborne Division
and has the unit sign "81". The vehicles of 1 Cdn Para Bn had the unit sign
"57". Photo copyright Doug Morrison ex-B Coy, then Vickers
Platoon, HQ Coy, 1 Cdn Para Bn 1942-45. |
On 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion
- Out of the Clouds - The History of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
by John A. Willes (assisted by Mark Lockyer) 1981 and newer edition which includes more
photos including group company photos of Jan 1944.
- Airborne - The Heroic Story of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in the
Second World War by Brian Nolan 1995. ISBN 1-895555-77-9 Lester Publishing
Ltd., Toronto, ON, M5E 1A7
- Paratrooper (The Story of the 1st Canadian Parachute
Battalion's First Regimental Sergeant Major, Warrant Officer Class 1, Wendell James
(Knobby) Clark) by Colonel Gary H. Rice (Ret.) gehr@comnet.ca Mississippi Mills, Ontario. Newly
published in 1999 as a private venture in Ontario, Canada. [Note: There is at least one
other book previously published with this title.] This web site editor has not seen the
book so cannot comment on the book.
On British & Canadian Airborne
Go To It! - Peter Harclerode Story of 6th Airborne Division
Dropzone Normandy - Napier Crookenden, Ian Allan 1976 ISBN 0
07110 0660 1
The Maroon Beret Magazine of the Canadian Airborne Regiment
(especially 20th Anniversary Issue 1988)
A Bridge Too Far - Cornelius Ryan, Simon & Shuster, NY 1974
ISBN 0-671-21792-5 (story of the Battle of Arnhem)
Tommy - by David Gordon, Pictorial Histories Publishing Co., 713
South Third St. West, Missoula, MT, 59801 July 1998 (a basic introduction to W.W. II
British and Canadian airborne troops equipment) ISBN 1-57510-042-8 Library of
Congress 98-65347 http://www.io.com/~tog/tommy/
The Red Devils - G.G. Norton Leo Cooper, 1971, 1973
Arnhem 1944 - Januz Piekalkiewicz, Ian Allan 1976 ISBN 07110
08264
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