Closing the gap. Amazing photograph taken today of Major Vivian Currie, with pistol on left, closing the Falaise Gap. The image is said to be the only one from WWII of a soldier in the process of winning the Victoria Cross. #WWII #Canada 🇨🇦 "After Currie led the attack on the village of St. Lambert-sur-Dives [shown in first tweeted image] and consolidated a position halfway inside it, his force repulsed repeated enemy attacks over the next day and a half." He belonged to the South Alberta Regiment. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Michael Daly, resigned from West Point, which he loathed for its hazing, to go fight as a private in WWII. Received MOH aged 21 as a captain after leading men to heart of Third Reich. Returned to US severely wounded. A star of my next book. #WWII #MOH #WestPoint How about "Fort Daly" for a true Yankee patriot? In 1987, Michael Daly lay on his deathbed, making a final confession. Before saluting his priest, he told him: "The world needs peacemakers. Anyone can shoot a gun." #WhiteHouse #WestPoint #WWII #