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Cape Breton Highlanders

Newspaper Clippings - Second World War Era - Dispatches and Articles From the War Zones

This section contains one newspaper clipping dispatch dated January 5, 1945, by Canadian press war correspondent William Boss. It pertains to fighting by Canadian troops on the Adriatic coast of northern Italy in the vicinity of the town of Granarola, and mentions a bridgehead over the Bonifica Canal established by the Cape Breton Highlanders. Capt Sandy Bonnell is mentioned by name in the article. 

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