'Prairie Boys Made the Best Sailors': 99-Year-Old Navy Vet Recounts His WWII ExperienceREGINA—It was during his first year of study at the University of Saskatchewan in pursuit of an agricultural degree, as World War II engulfed the world, that Osborne Lakness felt the call to join the military.
"My friends got together and said, well what are we doing here? Our [other] friends are going to serve the country and we weren’t. So all four of us decided to join the Navy, and we did," Lakness, 99, said in an interview.
Lakness, who grew up with a brother and four sisters on their parents' homestead near Govan, Saskatchewan, enrolled at the HMCS Unicorn, a naval recruitment centre in Saskatoon. During World War II, 3,573 officers and non-commissioned members enlisted and received their initial training at the centre....
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