1939-1945: A Soldier's War <img src=/med/en/soldiers_ww2/soldiers_homebr_en.jpg alt= width=100 height=75 border=0>1930<img src=/images/sp10.gif width=32 height=1 border=0>1940
1950<img src=/images/sp10.gif width=32 height=1 border=0>1960
1970<img src=/images/sp10.gif width=32 height=1 border=0>1980
1990<img src=/images/sp10.gif width=32 height=1 border=0>2000
<img src=/images/sp10.gif width=360 height=25 border=0 hspace=0>
Click to Activate Topic Timeline 1939-1945: A Soldier's War - Conflict and War - CBC Archives
From 1939 to 1945 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lived and died in lands far from home. CBC Radio was one of the few links friends and family in Canada had to their loved ones abroad. Through reports from the front, dramatizations and direct greetings from soldiers, CBC revealed what life on the battlefront was like.
Canadian troops depart for Europe
Messages to the home front
Comrades in Arms
In December 1939 Canadian soldiers arrive by train to join a convoy of troops headed for the war in Europe. (Radio; runs 8:20)
Canadian men and women overseas send messages from "Canada's Fighting Fronts." (Radio; runs 13:28)
The 1943 CBC program "Comrades in Arms" dramatizes the life of soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air Force. (Radio; runs 14:53)
Wounded soldiers speak
Tea time on the battlefront
The slit trench
Five Canadian soldiers wounded in Normandy talk about their adventures. (Radio; runs 9:03)
The nightly ritual of making tea in the trenches. (Radio; runs 3:28)
A wounded Canadian captain discusses the grim hours soldiers spend in shallow, muddy trenches. (Radio; runs 4:28)
Greetings from the Beaver Club
Christmas dinner at the front
Losing your nerve
From London's Beaver Club, Canadian soldiers send short radio greeting to loved ones at home. (Radio; runs 6:59)
An army cook discusses plans for Christmas dinner at the front in Holland. (Radio; runs 3:33)
The horrors of a mental breakdown on the Italian front. (Radio; runs 4:47)
The first Canadians into Berlin
Two Canadian soldiers describe their entry to Berlin on VE night. (Radio; runs 7:03)
From 1939 to 1945 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lived and died in lands far from home. CBC Radio was one of the few links friends and family in Canada had to their loved ones abroad. Through reports from the front, dramatizations and direct greetings from soldiers, CBC revealed what life on the battlefront was like.
Canadian troops depart for Europe Messages to the home front Comrades in Arms In December 1939 Canadian soldiers arrive by train to join a convoy of troops headed for the war in Europe. (Radio; runs 8:20)
Canadian men and women overseas send messages from "Canada's Fighting Fronts." (Radio; runs 13:28)
The 1943 CBC program "Comrades in Arms" dramatizes the life of soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air Force. (Radio; runs 14:53)
Wounded soldiers speak Tea time on the battlefront The slit trench Five Canadian soldiers wounded in Normandy talk about their adventures. (Radio; runs 9:03)
The nightly ritual of making tea in the trenches. (Radio; runs 3:28)
A wounded Canadian captain discusses the grim hours soldiers spend in shallow, muddy trenches. (Radio; runs 4:28)
Greetings from the Beaver Club Christmas dinner at the front Losing your nerve From London's Beaver Club, Canadian soldiers send short radio greeting to loved ones at home. (Radio; runs 6:59)
An army cook discusses plans for Christmas dinner at the front in Holland. (Radio; runs 3:33)
The horrors of a mental breakdown on the Italian front. (Radio; runs 4:47)
The first Canadians into Berlin Two Canadian soldiers describe their entry to Berlin on VE night. (Radio; runs 7:03)
