Battle of the Atlantic remembered ... in Ireland

[2RHPZ]

60 years after the campaign
Battle of the Atlantic remembered by veterans here, in Ireland

By KRISTEN LIPSCOMBE

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Second World War veterans Max Corkum and Guy Ouellet stand aboard HMCS Sackville in Halifax recently. They are among a group heading to Londonderry in northern Ireland to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.

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Trustees Ray Soucie, left, and Donald Mackey talk in the wheelhouse of HMCS Sackville. Both will be part of a group heading to Londonderry, Ireland, where they will take part in Second World War ceremonies this year.

Article (http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2005/04/26/fMetro240.raw.html)

[Fenna]

Interesting article, although Londonderry is in Northern Ireland not the Republic

[martinexsquaddie]

especially as the free state decided to stay neutral and treated many of the vetrans who thought for the british badly.
it took until this year for somebody to behead the stature of some ira git who died on a u boat trying to come back to ireland to cause trouble