Canadian Army Newsreel: Caen

334 Canadians were killed and 864 were wounded taking Caen.

July 9, the Canadians carefully cleared Caen of its snipers, mines, and booby traps. Among the mounds of debris, that too would be a baneful affair. Altogether, more Canadians were killed and wounded liberating the city than on D-Day itself.

More about Caen:
http://wwii.ca/page21.html

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[slayerrat]

wooo canada!

[pspboy7]

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

[Taysidethistles]

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

[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.

[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

[irhusker]

interesting reel. thanks for sharing!

[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.

[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 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]

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

[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?

[polarbeach]

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