Current Events > During WWII, did Canada really do anything important?

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I think most people assume the only important Allied forces were the U.S., U.K., and USSR. Everybody else played second fiddle, but was Canada one of them? Did they do anything significant, or were they kind of just there for support?

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They sorta went to a little place called Normandy beach, not exactly the most important moment in the war but they were there.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_in_World_War_II

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You literally have Google.

Why ask this stupid question?

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Not quite as involved as WW1 but...

SSJKirby posted...

Normandy beach

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We completed some of the hardest pushes into France?

Liberation of France[edit]
Main articles: Operation Overlord and Operation Dragoon

On 6 June 1944, the 3rd Canadian Division landed on Juno Beach in the Normandy landings and sustained heavy casualties in their first hour of attack. By the end of D-Day, the Canadians had penetrated deeper into France than either the British or the American troops at their landing sites, overcoming stronger resistance than the other beachheads except Omaha Beach. In the first month of the Normandy campaign, Canadian, British and Polish troops were opposed by some of the strongest and best trained German troops in the theatre, including the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the Panzer-Lehr-Division.

Several costly operations were mounted by the Canadians to fight a path to the pivotal city of Caen and then south towards Falaise, part of the Allied attempt to liberate Paris. By the time the First Canadian Army linked up with U.S. forces, closing the Falaise pocket, the destruction of the German Army in Normandy was nearly complete. Three Victoria Crosses were earned by Canadians in Northwest Europe; Major David Currie of the South Alberta Regiment received the Victoria Cross for his actions at Saint-Lambert, Captain Frederick Tilston of the Essex Scottish and Sergeant Aubrey Cosens of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada were rewarded for their service in the Rhineland fighting in 1945, the latter posthumously. 50,000 Canadians fought in D-Day.

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They made sure our boys overseas had fresh maple syrup.

we kicked ass, nazis treated canadian pows worse than pows from other countries for this

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