Canadian Forces in Normandy

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    The Bloody Battles Around Caen: Army, Part 96

    September 21, 2011 by Terry Copp
    On the afternoon of July 11, 1944, Canadian Corps Headquarters once again became operational on the soil of France. Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds assumed responsibility for 7,280 metres of front in the Caen sector of Normandy. There was little time or inclination to mark this...