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This page consist of historic pictures and newsreels made during World War 2 

Members of the PPCLI using a Vicker's Machine Gun during training in Canada. It would appear that the soldiers are wearing the denim uniforms.

Soldiers from the PPCLI carry wounded away on a stretcher in Italy.

PPCLI private taking aim during street fighting in Ortona, Italy in December 1943

Canadian Army Newsreel depicts the landing on June 6th, 1944 and the march towards Paris.

 

PPCLI section marching  towards the Gothic  Line

PPCLI  in full marching order  in N/W Europe after March 1945

 

 

A Canadian Army Training Film on the use of a anit - tank rifle. Walt Disney assisted in the making of the film.

 

 

The flag of the Dominion of Canada, known as the Red Ensign, as used during the war years.