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    Royal Canadian Navy marks 75th Anniversary of Victory in the Pacific Day

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    Large crowds gathered across on August 15, 1945 to celebrate the end of the Second World War. Victory in the Pacific Day was declared and brought to a close more than six long years of fighting across the globe.

    Weeks earlier, as millions of people were celebrating the Victory in , Canada was readying for the final push to end conflict in the Pacific, with important contributions from the Royal Canadian Navy (). Nearly 80,000 Canadians volunteered to join the Pacific forces, including 60 ships crewed by 13,500 men.

    The first Canadian to make its presence felt in the Pacific was the RCN, when the cruiser Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Uganda joined the British Pacific Fleet in time to participate in the Allied operations around Okinawa in the spring of 1945.

    The auxiliary cruiser HMCS Prince Robert, which had helped transport Canada's troops to the ill-fated defence of Hong Kong in 1941, returned to the Pacific Theatre and had the satisfaction of assisting in the liberation of the prisoners of war in Hong Kong.

    Of particular note was the service of Lieutenant Commander (LCdr) William Lore, the RCN's first Chinese-Canadian officer and the first officer of Chinese descent to serve in any of the Royal navies of the British Commonwealth. LCdr Lore served in England, Sri Lanka and Myanmar during the Second World War, and helped liberate Canadian prisoners of war in Hong Kong. LCdr Lore was the first Allied officer to enter Hong Kong since its…

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