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There is a book called The Complete War Of The Worlds - quite a nice, big Coffee Table type production. It says, and I quote "The Canadian National Guard sent units to the Peace Bridge, Rainbow Bridge and Queenston Bridge to repel the invaders." It also talks about a "County civil defence unit"...

Oh dear, the story seems dead in the water then  :-\

Great, thanks for the info. I've dropped them a line.

Ah, that's interesting. I thought there was something odd about that. My information comes from several books which quote the National Guard and I had failed to find any info on such an organisation in Canada. Rather casts doubt on the story if that fact is wrong. Many thanks for letting me know.

Hello everyone, weird question I know, but it might actually be true. Here's what happened. On October 30st 1968, a Buffalo radio station called WKBW ran a dramatic retelling of The War Of The Worlds. It was done in the style of breaking news stories (just as Orson Welles did back in 1938) and...