Oral History At The Canadian War Museum,
2012
Canadian War Museum
Oral History At The Canadian War Museum, Angus Brown
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Longing And Loss From Canada’S Great War,
2012
Canadian War Museum
Longing And Loss From Canada’S Great War, Tim Cook, Natascha Morrison
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Airborne Communications In Operation Market Garden,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Airborne Communications In Operation Market Garden, David Bennett
Canadian Military History
Operation Market Garden, Field Marshal B.L.M. Montgomery’s grand attempt to end the war in 1944, has been ceaselessly analysed in an attempt to understand the reasons for its failure. Factors such as the distance of the drop zones from the objectives in Arnhem, the delay in resupply, the presence of strong German forces in the area, as well as the slow progress of XXX Corps in linking the airborne bridgeheads, are some of the main reasons cited for the failure of the operation. Another element often raised has to do with the failure of communications equipment at Arnhem. Peter Harclerode, …
Arbitrary Justice?: A Comparative Analysis Of Canadian Death Sentence Passed And Commuted During The First World War,
2012
University of Western Ontario
Arbitrary Justice?: A Comparative Analysis Of Canadian Death Sentence Passed And Commuted During The First World War, Teresa Iacobelli
Canadian Military History
The topic of military executions has dominated the study of discipline and punishment during the First World War. Considering the relatively small number of men who were executed, 361 in British and Dominion forces combined, it is startling how much attention the subject has garnered. The morality of the practice has been widely discussed and debated and it has spawned recent pardons campaigns in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. Yet, virtually ignored in these debates have been the stories of the 3,080 men of the British and Dominion forces who were also sentenced to death, but saw their …
Aleutian Allusions: Mackenzie King’S Diary And The Invasion Of Kiska In 1943,
2012
University of Ottawa
Aleutian Allusions: Mackenzie King’S Diary And The Invasion Of Kiska In 1943, Glen Roger Perras
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Attack On The Church In St. Martin-De-Fontenay: 31 July–1 August 1944,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Attack On The Church In St. Martin-De-Fontenay: 31 July–1 August 1944, Jacques Dextraze
Canadian Military History
Editor’s Note: General J.A. Dextraze, “J Dex“ to Canada’s post–war army, served as Chief of the Defence Staff from 1972 to 1975 but in 1944 he was a 24–year–old company commander in Les Fusiliers de Mont-Royal (FMR). This account of the action carried out by his company on 1 August 1944 offers a graphic description of the challenges confronting the Canadians during the battles for Verrières Ridge. This attack was conducted in the context of Montgomery’s orders to “keep up the pressure on the Caen area... to make easier the task of the American armies fighting hard on the western …
Working With Montgomery: On Being A Scientific Adviser To A Commander-In-Chief (21 Army Group 1944–1945),
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Working With Montgomery: On Being A Scientific Adviser To A Commander-In-Chief (21 Army Group 1944–1945), B.F.J. Schonland
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Enemy Reaction To Overlord: Allied Intelligence Assessment, 6 May 1944,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Enemy Reaction To Overlord: Allied Intelligence Assessment, 6 May 1944, Bill Williams
Canadian Military History
Editor’s Note: In the months leading up to Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, Allied planners invested heavily in their attempts to learn about German dispositions. Much has been written about the “failure” of the Allies to detect the German 352nd Division which nearly doomed the American landings at Omaha. However, this was only one small piece of the intelligence picture. Ultra decrypts based on German wireless messages provided Allied planners with details of the German Order of Battle in France though the exact location of battalions, regiments and divisions was not always certain. Brigadier Bill Williams, General Montgomery’s senior …
Uncle Bill’S Service In Bomber Command, 1942–1944,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Uncle Bill’S Service In Bomber Command, 1942–1944, Roger Sarty
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Report On The Bombing Of Our Own Troops During Operation “Tractable”: 14 August 1944,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Report On The Bombing Of Our Own Troops During Operation “Tractable”: 14 August 1944, Arthur T. Harris
Canadian Military History
Editor’s Note: Operation “Tractable“ was the second major Canadian operation in Normandy designed to break through the German defensive perimeter to reach Falaise. Like its predecessor, Operation “Totalize,“ “Tractable“ was to employ heavy bombers to augment the firepower available to the troops. The use of heavy bombers in a tactical role was a relatively new tasking for the strategic force and required precise targetting to destroy and disrupt enemy positions. The strategic bomber force, British and American, had made significant contributions to the land battle in Normandy, but there had been mistakes, most notably during Operation “Cobra” when the American …
The Long Wait (Part Ii): A Personal Account Of Infantry Training In Britain, June 1942–June 1943,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Long Wait (Part Ii): A Personal Account Of Infantry Training In Britain, June 1942–June 1943, Harold Macdonald, M.A. Macdonald
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Great War Legacy: A Drum From The 20th Battalion,
2012
Canadian War Museum
Great War Legacy: A Drum From The 20th Battalion, Eric Fernberg
Canadian Military History
During the First World War the Canadian Expeditionary Force recruited a total of 260 battalions for overseas service. Yet the four Divisions of the Canadian Corps maintained only 48 battalions at the front. The vast majority of the battalions sent to England were either broken up to supply reinforcements for units already at the front or reconstituted for duties such as forestry or pioneer work. But all these battalions went through the process of recruiting, training, and working up in Canada before going overseas, thereby developing their own unit personality, traditions, and esprit de corps. These were all lost …
The Balance Sheet: The Costs And The Gains Of The Bombing Campaign,
2012
Royal Military College of Canada
The Balance Sheet: The Costs And The Gains Of The Bombing Campaign, David L. Bashow
Canadian Military History
Critics of the bomber offensive frequently argue that the material and human cost of the campaign far overshadowed the gains, and that the resources dedicated to it could have been more effectively utilized elsewhere. They have argued that the combat manpower could have been better used in the other fighting services, especially the army, and industry could have been used to produce more weapons for these fighting services. However, proponents of this line of thought assume that the weight of effort expended on the bombing campaign was inordinately high. Richard Overy maintains that it was actually rather modest. “Measured against …
The Halifax And Lancaster In Canadian Service,
2012
Directorate of Heritage and History
The Halifax And Lancaster In Canadian Service, Stephen J. Harris
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Area Bombing By Day: Bomber Command And The Daylight Offensive, 1944–1945,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Area Bombing By Day: Bomber Command And The Daylight Offensive, 1944–1945, Laurie Peloquin
Canadian Military History
This article will examine an important but neglected phase of the Allied strategic bomber offensive in the Second World War. Given the very rich literature on the bombing war it is surprising to discover that litle attention has been paid to the daylight attacks undertaken by Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command in the fall and winter of 1944–1945. Nowhere in the existing literature is there a systematic analysis of this period of operations when the RAF and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) carried out 153 daylight raids between 27 August 1944 and 24 April 1945. Two primary issues will …
Table Of Contents,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Table Of Contents,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
Table Of Contents,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
The 1998 Canadian Battle Of Normandy Foundation Study Tour,
2012
Wilfrid Laurier University
The 1998 Canadian Battle Of Normandy Foundation Study Tour
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
