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Title: From Defensive to Offensive: Canada Joins Combat in Gulf War
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Report on Captain Steve Hill and Major David Kendall, CF-18 fighter pilots stationed in Qatar during the Gulf War. For the first time since the Korean War, Canadian forces fire offensively in combat and successfully attack an Iraqi ship.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Gulf War Syndrome
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: It's been seven years since Canadian soldiers have come home from the Gulf War. Many of them are suffering from ailments such as nausea, rashes, and chronic fatigue. They call it Gulf War Syndrome, but a new Canadian military report has concluded that there is no such illness. The report states that some veterans are suffering from extreme cases of battle stress due to the special stresses of service in the Persian Gulf.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Somalia Debacle a High-Level Cover-Up
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Report on the Somalia Commission of Inquiry's findings and recommendations. The Commissioners point out that Canadian soldiers were ill-prepared for the Somalia mission and that witnesses at the Somalia Inquiry were evasive, told half-truths, or lied. Their blueprint for change in the military, with 160 recommendations, covers leadership, accountability, discipline, training, and mission planning. Art Eggleton calls the report a "blanket condemnation" of the Canadian military.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Second World War: Women after the war
 
Type: Sound
Description: In this 1945 broadcast of the radio program "Servicemen's Forum," the position of women in Canada's postwar society is discussed. Talk turns to education for women, full employment, wage equity, and the possibility of introducing a family allowance.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Somalia Affair: Defending the Airborne Regiment
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Interview with Sergent Ronnie Smith, Corporal Patrick Couture, and Captain Hercule Gosselin of Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in which they describe their experiences as part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia. They describe how they feel that the schools they built, the infrastructure they developed and the people they saved are all being overlooked by Canadians due to media coverage of a few isolated incidents.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Second World War: Living in a Wet Tent
 
Type: Sound
Description: A CBC reporter in France gives a vivid account of an airman's day in an RCAF airfield camp as torrential rains cause flooding, wet tents, mud, and dampness everywhere.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Van Doos: Scorpions, Kiwis and 'Hoochies'
 
Type: Sound
Description: Royal 22nd soldiers deal with language barriers and weather in East Timor mission.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Somalia Investigation Hits 'Inexplicable Delay'
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Major Vince Buonamici, a Military Police Officer, testifies at the Somali Inquiry that he investigated two shooting deaths of Somalis by Airborne soldiers in 1993. He reports that the military chain of command deliberately delayed his work - work that could have prevented Shidane Arone's death.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: The Slit Trench - Second World War
 
Type: Sound
Description: A wounded Canadian captain discusses the grim hours soldiers spend in shallow, muddy trenches.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Conscription Crisis - Turmoil on the Homefront - First World War
 
Type: Document Film and Video
Description: French Canada erupts in anger when the federal government forces its men to go to war, thus ripping open the country's linguistic divide. From the television series "Canada: A People's History." Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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