Canadian Army Newsreel: Caen

[Taysidethistles]

just south of Caen, near the road to Falaise is Hill 140 - remember those Canadians.

[lokaiz]

i believed canadians were greater soldiers then people thought simply due to the fact they felt bragging about their achievements was a shamefull thing

also if anyone denies the fact the russians were a major help in the european theater then they really need to look into a history book

[exv152]

@lokaiz Russians were a huge help in ww2, the young and elderly women they shamelessly raped really helped a lot. The tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow should be renamed the tomb of the unknown rapist.

[irhusker]

interesting reel. thanks for sharing!

[Skelde]

Thanks for posting this My father was badly wounded in the battle to take Caen but was back fighting again within a couple of months.

[2323winston]

Thank you for posting this video as well as the video of the North Shore Regiment (New Brunswick) landing on Juno. My father in law was one of the first off the landing craft as he had a bangalor (wrong spelling) to blow up the barb wire on shore. I read how the North Shore Regiment was practically wiped out fighting for the airport at Carpiquet. Brave young men of New Brunswick who should never be forgotten. Thank God they were there at answer the call.

[mcrudeboi123456789]

Well done Canada from England (Y)

[Klens75]

You know... the Russians suffered 18 000 deaths a day fighting Germany.

[samrulz7]

The Russians had a massive army, and were often unorganized and poorly equiped compared to the Germans. Not to mention a lot of them died during the harsh Russian winter.

[randmanq]

we owe the victory of the allies to the russians

[samrulz7]

If they didn't have mass numbers Russia would have been wiped out in a number of weeks..

[randmanq]

that's beside the point. stalingrad was the most important turning point of the war. D day wouldn't have been nearly as successful if the russians didn't launch a huge offenseive at around the same time, moping up a huge amount of german armor. There's much more to it, and none of it is taught in school. All I'm saying is that the russians played the biggest role in the demise of the german war machine

[samrulz7]

That's not beside the point that IS my point..

[randmanq]

so just because of the sheer size of population and size of their country, their efforts and effect on the war becomes invalid?

[samrulz7]

What kind of rhetorical question is that? All I'm saying is that early on in the war their strategies proved severely ineffective. (For references, watch Enemy at the Gate)

[polarbeach]

@randmanq the single dumbest thing ever written on you tube .... congratulations ! Russians were and always will be cowards. p.s they were no better than hitler and caused massive amounts of genocide through out eastern Europe.

[cf80to01]

@polarbeach Wrong! The bravery of the average Soviet soldier throughout the war was beyond reproach. They often fought to the last man, simply to delay the German advance by a few minutes or hours. They were ill trained, harshly treated and ruled by a despot, but cowards? Absolutely not.

[polarbeach]

@cf80to01 funny how you didn't respond to the second part of my comment.

[cf80to01]

@polarbeach Sorry.... certainly Russians were ruled by a meglomaniacal despot who was no better ( and in many ways worse) than Hitler, but that does not make every Russian a meglomaniac nor a coward. What they did in Eastern Europe was a crime, however, I can understand why they did what they did. You do recall that little German invasion that began in June 1941?

[deltaboy91]

you can thank the D-Day victory to the lessons learned at Dieppe

[cf80to01]

@deltaboy91 Exactly what lessons were learned at Dieppe? Don't attack a defended port? Perform a proper beach recce prior to D-Day? Ensure proper security before D-Day? Have complete air superiority before D-Day? These were all common sense. The only thing Dieppe achieved was the destruction of a Canadian Division and some great PR for the Germans.

[deltaboy91]

@cf80to01 iggnorant eh? cant respect the fallen. They gave their lives for you. No shit but up until then that type of warfare was new and not fully understood. So dont blame the 2nd Canadian Division blame Combined Operations and Lord Louis Mountbatten. Dieppe was a raid conducted to test German defences, and relieve pressure off the Russians. Which it did. Germany sent 22 Divisions to Western Europe. Troops that could have helped the sway at Stalingrad.

[cf80to01]

@deltaboy91 You might want tor reread my comments. I NEVER blamed the Canadians. The blame rests entirely at the feet of Churchill and the COS. I understand why they sent the Canadians on a suicide mission, but that does not make it any easier to accept. The allied air raids on German targets did far more to tie down Wehrmacht soldiers than Dieppe did. The great service Dieppe did for the Brit COS was "prove" (to Stalin)that no seaborne invasion could be attempted in the foreseeable future.

[Bandeto]

FEAR US [Canadians]!

For queen and country!

[slayerrat]

wooo canada!

[michaelwright999]

canada well done good lads

[pspboy7]

wow, different times back then... now who stands for those kind of principles? Not many, perhaps nobody?

[jimmyphack]

Immigration ruined this country. not to mention, the entire british empire.

[sgtodeath]

immigration is what built canada dumbass

[jimmyphack]

Canada was built on immigration, back when we had rules with the immigration. Enjoy your sharia law.

[sgtodeath]

wtf??we still have rules, and im not muslim im chinese

[jimmyphack]

We do not have rules against lets pretend this,

You meet a muslim and he is racist twoards you becuase you are chinese and he is a muslim he wins automaticly by an invisible social control that doesnt even exist basicly.

if you say anything agianst a muslim doing that they say 'you are intolerant of my race and my religon and you are a racist bigot'.

[sgtodeath]

yea i agree muslim is an evil religion, mohammad himself raped and killed women and children who were not muslim, and a jihad is to kill anyone not muslim. pretty fucked up to me. my unit is going to afghanistan for tf-109 early 2009, so ill kick some muslim ass.

[Michniak1687]

hooah Canada!

[Jcashrulez]

good video!

[JUSSBO]

Oh Canada I stand on guard for thee!