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American, Canadian and Mexican heroes

Wait a second is there such a thing as a hero from Canada?

Butler, Leroy - Inventor of lambeau leap
 
C: Champlain, Samuel de

(Well, he was French, and was around before there really was a Canada, but he explored a lot of what is now Canada.)
 
Gordon said:
Wait a second is there such a thing as a hero from Canada?
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Two birds with one stone: The answer to this question, and the "G" ...

Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who led an attack to within 50 feet of a Japanese destroyer in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, thereby sinking the destroyer although he was hit and his own aircraft on fire and finally himself killed. He was one of the gallant company of Naval Airmen who, from December 1944, fought and beat the Japanese from Palembang to Tokyo. The actual incident took place in the Onagawa Wan on the 9<sup>th</sup> of August 1945. Gray was leader of the attack which he pressed home in the face of fire from shore batteries and at least eight warships. With his aircraft in flames he nevertheless obtained at least one direct hit which sank its objective. Ironically, it was the same day the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, followed by Truman's warning that Tokyo was the next target, in three days. It was a bluff. We didn't have another bomb. The Japanese nonetheless surrendered.
 
thisnumbersdisconnected said:
Two birds with one stone: The answer to this question, and the "G" ...

Lt. Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, who led an attack to within 50 feet of a Japanese destroyer in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, thereby sinking the destroyer although he was hit and his own aircraft on fire and finally himself killed. He was one of the gallant company of Naval Airmen who, from December 1944, fought and beat the Japanese from Palembang to Tokyo. The actual incident took place in the Onagawa Wan on the 9<sup>th</sup> of August 1945. Gray was leader of the attack which he pressed home in the face of fire from shore batteries and at least eight warships. With his aircraft in flames he nevertheless obtained at least one direct hit which sank its objective. Ironically, it was the same day the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, followed by Truman's warning that Tokyo was the next target, in three days. It was a bluff. We didn't have another bomb. The Japanese nonetheless surrendered.
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Pretty convincing bluff.
 
Can I say Kennedy, John F?

I am a fan of the world not being blown up.

I'll come up with a backup.....
 
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