⛈️”Storming Juno” beach.

[Vishnu]

As a Canadian, I feel I need to let  others know about the sacrifices Canadians made during WWII.  
 

I recently visited all the Normandy Beaches as well as Vimy Ridge.

 

This movie (although to Hollywood  standards is lower) is a really good representation of what we contributed to D-Day.  

 

Veterans recount the horrors  at the end of the movie for 30 minutes.
 

We took the hardest defensive beach.

 

We advanced  further to the objective

 than any other ally.

 

 

Please.   Watch. 

 

 

S! To the Fallen. 
 

 

Edited December 3, 2023 by Vishnu

[DD_Arthur]

5 minutes ago, Vishnu said:

As a Canadian, I feel I need to let  others know about the sacrifices Canadians made during WWII.    

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[Vishnu]

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[Robli]

I am sure that the Canadians fought bravely and successfully on D-Day, but it is hard to objectively believe that Juno was the hardest beach. When looking at the orders of battle and amounts of casualties then surely Omaha must have been the toughest beach?

What comes to Canadians otherwise, it is quite a puzzle, why Allies decided to sacrifice so many Canadians at Dieppe. Maybe that experience was needed for Normandy success, but it is still puzzling why it fell so heavily on Canadians.

[Gambit21]

On 12/2/2023 at 5:09 PM, Vishnu said:

 

We took the hardest defensive beach.

 

knock it off.

 

[AndyJWest]

6 hours ago, Robli said:

I am sure that the Canadians fought bravely and successfully on D-Day, but it is hard to objectively believe that Juno was the hardest beach. When looking at the orders of battle and amounts of casualties then surely Omaha must have been the toughest beach?

What comes to Canadians otherwise, it is quite a puzzle, why Allies decided to sacrifice so many Canadians at Dieppe. Maybe that experience was needed for Normandy success, but it is still puzzling why it fell so heavily on Canadians.

 

Regarding Canadian involvement in the Dieppe raid, this is more or less the official version:

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General Bernard Montgomery chose the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division for the raid. General Andrew McNaughton, who commanded the First Canadian Army and General H.D.G. Crerar, commander of I Canadian Corps eagerly accepted this opportunity for Canadian soldiers to get some combat experience as they had been stationed in Great Britain for two years without having ever engaged the enemy in a major operation. In Canada, public opinion was starting to question this inactivity: the time was ripe and Canadians soldiers were roaring to go and make a name for themselves like their predecessors of WWI did.

Just how 'roaring to go' the troops involved actually were might be open to question.

https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/the-dieppe-raid/

[Trooper117]

Total casualty figures for D-Day were not recorded at the time and are difficult to confirm in full. 

 

Juno Beach... approx 1,000 casualties, 340 killed.

Omaha Beach... over 3,686 casualties, 777 killed.

Sword Beach... 2,400 casualties.

Utah Beach... 589 casualties, 197 killed.

Gold Beach... 1,300 casualties. 

Edited December 4, 2023 by Trooper117