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This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
Canada and the cost of World War II. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-2938-0. Campbell, John Robinson (1984). James Layton Ralston and manpower for the Canadian army (M.A. thesis). Wilfrid Laurier University. Chartrand, René; Ronald Volstad (2001). Canadian Forces in World War II. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-302-0.
Pages in category "Canadian military personnel killed in World War II" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Killed in an insurrection by Nabu-suma-ukin II. [8] Nabu-suma-ukin II: 732 BC: Nabu-mukin-zeri [9] Nabu-mukin-zeri: 729 BC: Killed during the Assyrian conquest of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III. [10] Shalmaneser V: King of Assyria: 722 BC: Neo-Assyrian Empire: Sargon II [11] Mushezib-Marduk: King of Babylon 689 BC: Babylon: Murdered during ...
General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar CH, CB, , DSO, CD, PC (28 April 1888 – 1 April 1965) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who became the country's senior field commander in the Second World War as commander of the First Canadian Army in the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–1945, having rapidly risen in rank from brigadier in 1939 to that of a full general in 1944.
The various gang members were tried; Pringle was sentenced to death for murder. [2] An appeal against the decision was rejected. On 5 July 1945, Pringle was executed by a Canadian Army firing squad. [2] He was buried in grave number 11, row B, plot VII at Caserta CWGC Cemetery in Italy. [4]
Willard Kitchener MacDonald (August 13, 1916 – 2004), popularly known as the Hermit of Gully Lake, was a recluse who, after jumping a troop train to avoid service in World War II, lived in a secluded hut by Gully Lake, Nova Scotia in Canada for nearly 60 years.
Wing Commander Mark Henry Brown, DFC & Bar (9 October 1911 – 12 November 1941) was a Canadian-born flying ace who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. Credited with having shot down at least fifteen German aircraft, he was the first Canadian pilot to become a flying ace during the war.