Case Studies
Stories
Personal stories from the Second World War — veterans followed from enlistment to homecoming.
L/Cpl George Pollard
Seventeen years old and lying about his age, George Pollard enlisted with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders in June 1940. Four years later he landed at Bernières-sur-Mer on D-Day. Eleven days after that, he disappeared.
Sgt. Moe Hurwitz, DCM, MM
A Jewish hockey player from Montreal who turned down a Boston Bruins tryout to enlist. He earned the Military Medal at Cintheaux, the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Philippine, and was killed in action near Wouwesche Plantage in October 1944.
The war of Earl Olmsted
A Canadian artillery officer landed at Juno on D-Day. Eighty years later, his grandson walked the same ground. A Project '44 case study, mapped from war diaries, log books, and family photographs.