A Heroic Bond in World War Two: After Operation Jubilee
A casual chat between two neighbours in snow-covered Edgemont, Alberta, Canada, led to an unexpected connection between two sons—one from the freezing Canadian winter and the other from a bushfire-ravaged property in Queensland, Australia. Their fathers shared a heroic bond during World War Two, and neither family knew of the other’s existence before their contact. Ken Wright and Anne Gafiuk…
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