War Stories

Introduction My daughter Rachel was on a quest (since achieved) to visit 40 countries by the age of 40, so we visited Gdansk, Poland during the long weekend in May. I would like to take credit for choosing Gdansk because it was the location of the opening salvo of WW2, but since I thought we were going to Krakow until two weeks before the trip, I had no influence on the choice. Looking at old town Gdansk, you can see the Dutch and Flanders influence and are perfectly prepared

Introduction During my recent visit to Normandy, I traced the path of my Uncle Les Allen, a Corporal in the Mortar Platoon of the Royal Regiment of Canada. They landed on Juno Beach a month after D-Day and fought their way south in several operations leading up to Operation Tractable 8-10 Aug 1944. Personal History Leslie Orllian Allen was born on 07 December 1922 in Kingsville, ON, to Orillian Allen and Mary Alice Rawson, the sixth of eleven children. The last two children w