To: longnshort who wrote (38195 ) 2/24/2005 6:53:01 PM From: John Sladek Read Replies (3) | Respond to longonshit, Your statement is ridiculous and once again shows off your extreme ignorance. Your statements offends the memory of the 39,000 of Canadians who died fighting during WW II, and thousands of others that died and were wounded in such wars as WWI, the Korean War, Operation Desert Storm, and Afghanistan. They have never freed anyone, search.eb.com As the Canadian soldiers worked their way through the obstacles and came into the enfilading killing zones, the first wave took dreadful casualties. Company B of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles was cut down to one officer and 25 men as it moved to reach the seawall. In the assault teams, the chance of becoming a casualty in that first hour was almost 1 in 2 . By mid-morning, hard fighting had brought the town of Bernières into Canadian hands, and later Saint-Aubin was occupied. Progress inland past the towns was good, and, as some armoured units arrived in later waves, they briefly interdicted the Caen-Bayeux road. One Troop of the 1st Hussar tank regiment was thus the only unit of the entire Allied invasion to reach its final objective on D-Day.The Canadians suffered 1,200 casualties out of 21,400 troops who landed at Juno that day--a casualty ratio of 1 out of 18. search.eb.com
