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0 By the third week of July 1944 the senior German officers in the west feared their armies were on the verge of collapse. Battle casualties totalled more than 116,000 men and just 10,000 replacements had arrived to sustain combat strength. The loss of 2,722 officers... -
0 JUNE 1, 1876: The Royal Military College opens on Point Frederick, a small peninsula east of Kingston, Ont. JUNE 2, 1953: A coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London, crowns Queen Elizabeth II. JUNE 3, 1989: The Toronto Skydome opens. JUNE 4, 1944: The Canadian/American First Special Service Force...
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0 This story marks the start of a new series on the Canadian Army’s experience during the campaign in Normandy and Northwest Europe, 1944-45. Having just returned from another battlefield study tour with eight students from my university, Wilfrid Laurier, and an equal number from the...
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1 MAY 1, 1945 As part of the Pacific Fleet, His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Uganda and elements of Task Force 57 place themselves to intercept Japanese air strikes headed for the island of Okinawa south of Japan. Uganda, along with other cruisers and battleships, bombards air bases...
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10 The beginning of the end of Nazi-occupied Europe began well before the May 1945 liberation of the Netherlands, when Allied forces stormed the shores of Normandy in June 1944. Thousands of lives were lost and thousands more shattered during the long and difficult battles that...
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0 Veteran Murray Knowles pauses for a moment on Juno Beach. ILLUSTRATION: JENNIFER MORSE The 65th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy Campaign is a significant anniversary. It has been decades since the troops fought their way ashore and this may be the last...
D-Day
