HMCS IROQUOIS with HMShips MAURITIUS and URSA steaming at 32 knots and laying smoke screen to evade fire from shore batteries off the west coast of France on 22 August 1944. IROQUOIS and MAURITIUS had been straddled by shells from the Gironde Shore Battery. Roger Litwiller Collection, Lynford Bourne, RCNVR photo, courtesy Battle of Atlantic […]