Into the Meat Grinder | Exploring SMALL TOWN Canada at War

The Windmill and the Teenaged Nazi

A classic red Nazi flag with the white circle with a black swastika in the center.

A tall canvas dartboard with a painted image of Hitler on it.

A “Hitler” Dartboard

A black-and-white photograph of a civilian and several soldiers in a bombed-out city.

Bombed-Out City

A black-and-white photograph of ships landing on the beach with barrage balloons in the background.

Normandy Invasion Coast

A black-and-white photograph of a church and a bombed-out street.

St. Pierre Church

A black-and-white photograph of soldiers with guns searching bombed-out buildings.

Canadian Soldiers

A black-and-white photograph of two soldiers washing with large balloons floating in background.

Royal Air Force Soldiers

A black-and-white photograph of two soldiers lying with a PIAT at the end of a bombed-out street.

Canadians In Caen

A black-and-white photograph of a medic attending to a soldier near a burning tank.

Fight In The Falaise Gap

A large anchor.

A small brown booklet with a bullet hole along the spine.

A small wooden box with a plastic and metal calculator inside.

A Speed-And-Course Calculator

A large metal wireless mobile radio transceiver.

Wireless Mobile Radio Transceiver

A black-and-white photograph of a soldier in Air Force uniform walking down a street.

A blue hardcover book with pages on which to record a gunner’s flight information.

Flight Log Book