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Badass Week: Leo Major and His Balls of Solid Steel (2017x286)
Air date: Dec 01, 2017
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Leo Major was a French Canadian man born in 1921. He probably didn’t think he was going to be more of a hero than the average soldier when he joined up with the Canadian Army at the start of World War II—supposedly he simply joined up because he wanted to show his father, with whom he had a shaky relationship, that he could do something to be proud of.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/the-man-who-single-handedly-liberated-the-city-of-zwolle-in-the-netherlands-from-german-occupation/
Sources:
http://www.kvacanada.com/stories_trfleo.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Major
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jcY6AAAAIBAJ&sjid=SyoMAAAAIBAJ&dq=leo-major%20canada&pg=1366%2C13119661
http://www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=1297
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=fbcc446c-231f-4781-940a-3ebc3dee9f94
http://www.theherocc.com/an-interview-with-leo-major/
http://www.thegalleryofheroes.com/leo-major/
Image Credit:
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-167377628/stock-photo-zwolle%2C-vintage-stamp-on-paper-background
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-173867476/stock-photo-two-german-soldier-of-the-second-world-war-with-mauser-rifles-in-their-hands%2C-ready-to-fire-reconstruction
https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-193176253/stock-photo-confused-bald-guy-scratch-h
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