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"They wanted to give a Christmas dinner to service personnel. So that’s the sort of thing that, you know, it really means a lot."

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"There, one must wear skirts that go past the knees and they would always ask us to say "ma'am, yes ma'am" even if the girl wasn’t right!"

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"And then all of a sudden I thought, “Oh, I don’t want to do this work around the kitchen or whatever.” So I asked if I could join the military police."

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"As Mr. Winston Churchill said in one of his last speeches after the war, he said “without the women, we may have lost the war.”"

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"We were in France, and we were in Belgium. And to me, serving with those girls was the best thing that ever happened to me."

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"The excerpt in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the transcript in French."

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"In August 1942 Montgomery’s forward forces had brought Rommel’s army to a halt. RAF bombers, British submarines, had sunk 47 supply ships totaling 169,000 tons. All except two had been a direct result of decrypts from BP."

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"The women had never had jobs like this before and we wanted to prove ourselves. I think that’s part of it. And the men accepted us."

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Nichola Goddard, MSM, soldier (born 2 May 1980 in Madang, Papua New Guinea; died 17 May 2006 in Afghanistan). Captain Nichola Goddard was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. Her death shocked the nation and was widely covered by Canadian news media. Although many Canadians believed that military combat was a job for men, Goddard’s story revealed the commitment, service and sacrifice of women in the Canadian armed forces.