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☆ Canada Apologizes for Honor Awarded to Ex-Nazi Soldier in 1987
  + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
By Ismail Shakil and Steve SchererOTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Governor General Mary Simon has apologized for a top Canadian honor awarded in 1987 to a former Nazi soldier who moved to Canada after World War Two and went on to become the Chancellor of the University of Alberta. The governor general at the time awarded the Order of Canada, a top civilian honor that recognizes outstanding achievement and service to the nation, to Peter Savaryn, who was praised for promoting multiculturalism in Canada. Savaryn and Hunka had fought in the same Waffen SS unit. The Hunka incident has led to calls for Ottawa to release the Deschenes Commission report from the 1980s that probed the alleged presence of war criminals in Canada. Governor General Simon is Canada's official representative of head of state King Charles.
Persons: Ismail Shakil, Steve Scherer OTTAWA, General Mary Simon, Peter Savaryn, Savaryn, Adolf Hitler's Waffen, Yaroslav Hunka, Hunka, Justin Trudeau, General Simon, King Charles ., Steve Scherer, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Canada's, Nazi, University of Alberta, of Canada, Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS, of, Reuters, Waffen SS, Canada, Ottawa Locations: Canada, of Canada, Canada's, Savaryn, Ottawa
☆ Australian aircrew identified after military helicopter crash
  + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
SYDNEY, July 30 (Reuters) - Australia's army chief on Sunday released the names of four aircrew feared killed when an Australian Defence Force helicopter crashed into the ocean off the coast of Queensland. Defence Minister Richard Marles told reporters in Townsville, Queensland, a full investigation would take place into the crash. Ministerial (AUSMIN) dialogue between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and their Australian counterparts in Queensland state. "My thoughts are with the four Australians who were involved in the helicopter crash," Lloyd said in Townsville, addressing troops participating in Talisman Sabre. The joint military exercises - temporarily paused amid the search for the missing aircrew - have now resumed.
Persons: General Simon Stuart, Daniel Lyon, Maxwell Nugent, Joseph Laycock, Corporal Alexander Naggs, Stuart, Richard Marles, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Lloyd, Sam McKeith, Lincoln Organizations: SYDNEY, Sunday, Australian Defence Force, Talisman Sabre, Army's 6th Aviation, Defence, . Ministerial, Australian, Thomson Locations: Queensland, United States, Australia, Hamilton, Brisbane, Sydney, Townsville , Queensland, Townsville
☆ SS Montevideo Maru: Wreck of ship that sank in World War II with 1,000 POWs found in South China Sea
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Heather Law | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II while carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been found. The Montevideo Maru was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters (13,000ft) in the South China Sea, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles confirmed in a video he posted on Saturday from his Twitter account. The discovery brought to an end to “one of the most tragic chapters in Australia’s maritime history,” he said. “The absence of a location of the Montevideo Maru has represented unfinished business for the families of those who lost their lives,” Marles explained. This is the heart and the spirit of Lest We Forget,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrote.
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