Welcome back

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Welcome back

Date5/3/1985

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Darrell, Dick (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Welcome back: Riding in the back of an old army truck, Canadian veterans were given an enthusiastic welcome from 10,000 people who lined the streets in Apeldoorn, Holland, on April 30 - 40 years after the Canadian troops helped liberate that country from Nazi Germany.

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English

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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Welcome back: Wib Smith of Thornhill, a dispatch rider with the Saskatoon Light Infantry in World War II, and his wife Jean stroll along an Apeldoorn street during yesterday's reunion festivities

Welcome back: Wib Smith of Thornhill, a dispatch rider with the Saskatoon Light Infantry in World War II, and his wife Jean stroll along an Apeldoorn street during yesterday's reunion festivities

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Hero's welcome: Susan Oakley, a volunteer waitress at a luncheon at the Legion's 258 Branch greets John Finnimore, 98, who was a sergeant-major wounded at Ypres

Hero's welcome: Susan Oakley, a volunteer waitress at a luncheon at the Legion's 258 Branch greets John Finnimore, 98, who was a sergeant-major wounded at Ypres

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Canadian Flags fly to welcome Canadian vets in Vgchunur, the Netherlands-VE Day parade

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In wheeled chairs and some on crutches (left) veterans marched again with their units in the reunion parades

In wheeled chairs and some on crutches (left) veterans marched again with their units in the reunion parades

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