canadian army world war 2?

Question

can anyone name a major battle that the canadians were involved in in world war 2 besides the d-day invasion's

Answer 1

The Dieppe Raid, the Battle of Ortona, the Normandy Landings, the Battle for Caen, the Battle of the Scheldt, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the strategic bombing of German cities.

Answer 2

even although Canada replaced into not completely acknowledged in the course of the conflict, they nonetheless performed a important function in distinct missions. From my information, there have been numerous Canadian squadrons flying for the RAF (royal air pressure) from the fall of France in June 1940 to the A-bomb. Canada is possibly superb regularly occurring for its attack at Juno sea coast on June sixth. Canada also had an airborne branch which helped them connect inland. you'll come across extra information at wikipedia and google and stuff. Trevor

Answer 3

The Invasion of Normandy is a pretty big one they where in. They had and army or at least a few divisons there for the whole Invasion of Northern Europe.

Answer 4

In 1939, Canada was a fully autonomous country, the most senior of the British Dominions, and a nation that was, for the most part, reluctant to return to war. Nonetheless, Canadians entered the Second World War united, and from a population of only 11 to 12 million, eventually raised very substantial armed forces. Over the course of the war, 1.1 million Canadians served in the army, navy, and air force. Of these more than 40,000 gave their lives and another 55,000 were wounded. Countless other Canadians shared in the suffering and the hardships of war at home and abroad. After the long struggle of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the challenges of the Second World War accelerated Canada's ongoing transformation into a modern urban and industrialized nation.

Between the fall of France in June 1940 and the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, Canada supplied Britain with urgently needed food, weapons, and war materials by naval convoys and airlifts, as well as pilots and planes who fought in the Battle of Britain and The Blitz. If the planned German invasion of Britain had taken place in 1941, units of the formation later known as I Canadian Corps were already deployed between the English Channel and London to meet them.

From 1939 through to the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian merchant marine played an especially vital role in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. Canada was the primary location of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, still the largest air force training program in history; over 167,000 Commonwealth air force personnel, including more than 50,000 pilots, trained at airbases in Canada from 1940 to 1945. More than half of the BCAT graduates were Canadians who went on to serve with the RCAF and RAF. One out of the six RAF Bomber Command groups flying in Europe was Canadian.

Soldiers of the Canadian Army fought in the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 and in the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942, went ashore in 1943 in the Allied invasions of Sicily and mainland Italy, then fought through the long Italian Campaign. Many of the very first Allied soldiers to enter Rome were Canadian commandos in the Devil's Brigade. The Canadians helped greatly throughout the campaign, capturing the town of Ortona and playing a vital role in breaking the Gothic Line. During the course of the Italian Campaign, over 25, 000 Canadian soldiers became casualties of war.

Squadrons of the Royal Canadian Air Force and individual Canadian pilots flying with the British Royal Air Force fought with distinction in Spitfire and Hurricane fighters during the Battle of Britain. By January 1, 1943, there were enough RCAF bombers and crews in Britain to form No. 6 Group, one of eight bomber groups within RAF Bomber Command.

The Dieppe Raid (Operation Jubilee) of August 19, 1942, landed nearly 5,000 soldiers of the Second Canadian Division and 1000 British commandos on the coast of occupied France, in the only major combined forces assault on France prior to the Normandy invasion of June 1944. Despite air support from Allied fighters and bombers and a naval fleet of 237 ships and landing barges, the raid was a disaster. While Dieppe did provide valuable information on the absolute necessity of close communications in combined operations, of nearly 6000 troops landed over a thousand were killed and another 2,340 were captured. Two Canadians were recognized with the Victoria Cross for actions at Dieppe; Lieutenant Colonel "Cec" Merritt of the South Saskatchewan Regiment and Honorary Captain John Foote of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. The value of the Dieppe Raid is a matter of some controversy; some historians feel that it was largely because of Dieppe that the Allies decided not to attempt an assault on a seaport in their first invasion of occupied western Europe, others would point to the large number of amphibious operations before and after Dieppe as evidence that nothing new was learned there.

Answer 5

Mac gave a pretty good answer. I will add the Battle of the Atlantic, North African and Italian campaigns. They were pretty good.

Answer 6

"A bridge too far". The battle for the bridge near Arnhem in the Netherlands. Even made into a movie.

Answer 7

im not sure... my grandma might know. she was in the canadian navy during WW2

Answer 8

not really....uhm....im boerd