Do No Harm
10/22/19 • 21 min
These stories from Canadian medical personnel serving during the Second World War and a sly ship doctor treating sailors during the Korean War highlight gruesome and absurd moments of both conflicts.
Listen, then request a Memory Project speaker at http://www.thememoryproject.com/book-a-speaker
Learn more about the Second World War, the Korean War and more from The Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en
Music Credit: Evegeny Grinko – Winter Sunshine (FMA)
These stories from Canadian medical personnel serving during the Second World War and a sly ship doctor treating sailors during the Korean War highlight gruesome and absurd moments of both conflicts.
Listen, then request a Memory Project speaker at http://www.thememoryproject.com/book-a-speaker
Learn more about the Second World War, the Korean War and more from The Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en
Music Credit: Evegeny Grinko – Winter Sunshine (FMA)
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Codebreakers
Thousands of women served in intelligence facilities like Britain’s Bletchley Park and Canada’s Camp X during the Second World War. The Memory Project Archive contains stories from women who were recruited for these secret roles through the British Women’s Royal Naval Service and the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. Find out about more what they were doing and their oaths of secrecy. Find out about more what they were doing and their oaths of secrecy.
Listen, then request a Memory Project speaker at http://www.thememoryproject.com/book-a-speaker
Learn more about Camp X, intelligence and espionage at www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
Music Credit: Marcel Pequel – Four
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Listen, then request a Memory Project speaker at http://www.thememoryproject.com/book-a-speaker
Learn more about the Louis Riel, Poundmaker, Indigenous veterans and more from The Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en
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