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0 June 6 marks D-Day. Along 80 kilometres of well-fortified beachfront in Normandy, 155,000 soldiers, 5,000 ships and landing craft, 50,000 vehicles and 11,000 planes of the Allied forces attacked Hitler’s Fortress Europe in 1944, marking the beginning of the end of the Second World War....
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4 On June 7, 1944, D+1, the 12th SS Hitler Youth Division blocked the Canadian and British advance to Carpiquet and Caen by committing the tanks and infantry of Kurt Meyer’s 25th Panzer Grenadier Regiment to battle. It was a tactical victory with enormous operational...
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4 All those involved in the planning for D-Day knew there were two quite separate problems in securing a beachhead. The first task, breaking through the crust of defences known as the Atlantic Wall was rightly seen as the major challenge, but preparation and rigorous training...
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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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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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1 Quite unique in design, the Juno Beach Centre at Courseulles-sur-Mer in Normandy is both a learning centre and a memorial. From the air it resembles a stylized maple leaf. PHOTO: JUNO BEACH CENTRE Canadians travelling to France to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day...
Juno Beach
