Thank you very much for the opportunity, Mr. Chair.
First, I want express my gratitude to General Maisonneuve and Mr. Gregory for the work they're doing. I'm glad you're here today. It began with a quick phone call. I'm glad we can get you this exposure.
Chair, I would hope that we can forward the minutes of this portion of the meeting to the Dominion Institute, which is currently doing a digital history of individual lives in the Second World War. They may see this battle as one that would be of specific interest to record digitally. Of course that would be their decision, but we can get them this testimony that I'm certain will interest them greatly.
I'm so glad you're doing this project. I know about the Italian campaign, to the degree that one of my sons is named Lucian, after Lucian Truscott. I love my son and I love the name, but now I have almost a little regret, because I should have been able to find a Canadian general who drove in this campaign as well. Lucian Truscott's life was very impressive and he was a general's general to his soldiers, and that was one of the reasons why I wanted to give my son that name.
Now we take a look at this campaign with 560 who died, 23,000 who were wounded, and you said three ships were sunk. Were they sunk by enemy artillery on the way in?