Some veterans remained silent because they had not fought and felt that combat stories belonged to others. Personnel retained in Canada were still assigned work judged necessary to the war, even if it lacked battlefield drama. Recording those experiences prevents operational history from erasing the support system that made deployed forces possible.
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Why home-front military service still belongs in war history
The absence of combat does not make a service record historically empty; training, administration, and support at home remained part of the war effort.