While glory was to the front, the First Canadian Army, undermanned and facing supply problems, in a campaign overshadowed by nearly everything else in the war, was given the unsung task of clearing the channel coast. On September 22, 1944 operation Unergo began.
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During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.