They protected supplies ships in the Battle of the Atlantic. Canadians tested invasion methods during the Battle of Dieppe. Finally Canadians stormed the shores of Juno beach on one of the most important days of battle ever, D-day. The three most important battles that helped Canada win the war were the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Dieppe, and finally D-Day. Although the battle of Britain could also be considered one of Canada’s most important battles since a lot of Canadian fighter pilots fought and helped take control of the air because it was a joint effort and not strictly a Canadian force this battle was not included The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most important battles for Canada because it controlled all the supplies that were heading to the allies.
But even though he was victorious there was a very high casualty figure. He didn’t make that much ground in the four months of fighting, only a couple of miles. Also, his sent basically sent his men to their death. He told his soldiers to "walk slowly in a line towards the enemy" giving the machine gunners an easy target. If he had visited the frontline he would have been able to see that the attacks he staged had major flaws.
forces a total of six times before the Germans were finally expelled. Also captured were the nearby villages of Vaux and Bouresche. The battle ran from 6-26 June and by its end saw U.S. forces suffer 9,777 casualties, of which 1,811 were fatal. The number of German casualties is not known, although some 1,600 troops were taken prisoner. More critically, the combined Chateau-Thierry/Belleau Wood action brought to an end the last major German offensive of the war.
Within a year most of the soldiers were out of it. The poor amount of equipment and supplies was a major break down to the war with million of men without riles, one rifle was shared between 3 men, shortages of oats for the horses, boots for the troops and doctors for the wounded. By 1915 the French were making 5 times as many shells as the
Their artillery shells were nearly infinite. Weapons lay nearly everywhere over no man’s land, because of the 100,000 lives lost after the French’s attempt at over taking the Germans. Although tragic, this was helpful to the Canadians; there was no worrying whatsoever that a single soldier would somehow end up unarmed. The Canadian’s would be fighting over an open grave yard because of the pervious failed attack and claimed so many
The Canadian 2nd Infantry Division liberated the several hundred inhabitants that were still at Westerbork on 12 April 1945. The first soldiers to reach the camp were from the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment, followed by troops of The South Saskatchewan Regiment. When members of the Canadian 2nd Division reached Westerbork they found between 876 and 909 inmates there, the majority were Dutch Jews. Out of the the tens of thousands of people who the Germans murdered on their arrival from the Westerbork transit camp between 1942 and 1944, around 750 Jews died inside the facility during the five years of German occupation.Following its use in World War II, the Westerbork camp was first used as a penalty camp for alleged and accused Nazi collaborators and later housed Dutch nationals who fled the former Dutch East Indies. In the 1970s the camp was demolished.
Milo’s business that started out selling eggs eventually blossomed into a huge money making organization where “everyone has a share.” This all started when Milo was looking for an out to his air raid missions. Through Milo’s persistent nature he gets himself out of his required missions in order to conduct more black market business. Towards the end of the novel we see what a fraud Milo really is. After eleven long months on duty Milo had only flown five missions when the other men had flown over fifty. Not only does Milo not do his missions, he even bombs his own squadron.
We had used 250 heavy guns and 2500 shells aiming at the enemy positions. As part of our plan, we placed microphones through no-man’s land to hear sound waves from the guns. We became lucky as a snow storm began to blow in the faces of the Germans. All our Canadian troops felt a sense of pride and accomplishment as we won the battle of Vimy Ridge. However it causes me great sorrow that we have lost 3500 of our own men.
The Lost Battalion When word that a detachment from New York's own 77th Division had been surrounded by Germans in the Argonne Forest leaked out, a wily editor saw an opportunity to sell more papers and immediately dubbed the unit "The Lost Battalion." Over the next week, as the men held out in the face of overwhelming odds, the story of the "Lost Battalion" became the most widely reported episode of the war. It hardly mattered that the battalion wasn't a battalion at all and certainly wasn't lost. The group of some 500 men was made up of companies from two different battalions of the 154th Infantry Brigade, and headquarters knew the exact coordinates of the unit's location from the beginning of the siege. What did matter was that this group of determined men made a gallant stand reminiscent of the Alamo and Little Big Horn, and this one had a happier ending.
Frank Doumbe History of the Holocaust Final Exam Fall 2012 Dr. Fritz Part I: Essay: Answer the following question (40 points): A. Christopher Browning has noted in Ordinary Men that in “March 1942 some 75-80% of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20-25% had perished. A mere eleven months later, in mid-February 1943, the percentages were exactly the reverse. At the core of the Holocaust was a short, intense wave of mass murder.” How was such extensive mass murder possible in such a short period of time? This task required a massive mobilization of soldiers and voluntary involvement of local populations to carry out these acts, and that this mobilization of troops for the sake of carrying out genocide occurred at the same time that large numbers of German soldiers and material were committed to the battle for Stalingrad. They’ve been ordered to do