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- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)

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Today in Military History

January 14

1943:

Casablanca conference begins, Churchill and Roosevelt agree to prepare for invasion of France and meanwhile (once North Africa is conquered) to invade Sicily

1950:

A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment, based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight

1952:

HMCS Uganda is renamed Quebec

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