Invasion! There are many stories that can be told about events in Yarmouth County during World War II. Sometimes, with each telling a story is exaggerated and perhaps this is one of them. Among them, a peculiar incident unfolded at the Basic Training Camp in Yarmouth. The camp received an urgent call: the enemy had been sighted in the village of Comeau’s Hill. Mobilized into action, soldiers headed there with the RCAF from the Yarmouth airbase patrolling overhead. As the soldiers returned to their barracks, they swapped stories. Three huddled together, recounted the chaos. One spoke with wide- eyed intensity. “The way it all started, it was panic, I thought it was for real. Orders being shouted like never before. Move here, move there, search here, search there! And did you see the faces of the people? Imagine being invaded by the Canadian Army. Someone said the enemy was coming, but all they got was us! But we proved we could defend the place.” His buddy, grinning mischievously, interjected, “You mean clean blueberries off the bushes! I saw you two filling your face. I was crawling over this ridge, and I heard rustling in the bushes. Decided I would check it out, figured I found ‘em. So, over the ridge I go and instead of finding the enemy, here are you two stuffing your faces with blueberries!” With a sheepish reply, “Well, they were good, and we had a good feed … and it was good practice!” And so, in the annals of wartime history, the Battle of Comeau’s Hill became legendary, not for heroics, but for berry-picking prowess. The soldiers, with laughter echoing, proved that sometimes the smallest victories matter most.