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Full-Text Articles in Military History
Artist Of War: Jack Shadbolt (1909–1998), Laura Brandon
Artist Of War: Jack Shadbolt (1909–1998), Laura Brandon
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
The Test Of Command: Mcnaughton And Exercise “Spartan,” 4–12 March 1943, John Nelson Rickard
The Test Of Command: Mcnaughton And Exercise “Spartan,” 4–12 March 1943, John Nelson Rickard
Canadian Military History
The large-scale General Headquarters (GHQ) exercise known as “Spartan,” held in the south of England during March 1943, was a significant event in the history of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. The purpose of “Spartan” was to test the army in the dual tasks of breaking out of an established bridgehead and making the transition to open warfare. As a direct result of shortcomings on the exercise, three Canadian generals lost their commands. Of greatest significance was the eventual relief of General A.G.L. McNaughton as commander of the First Canadian Army in November 1943. During and after …
A Difficult Path To Tread, Paul Gough
A Difficult Path To Tread, Paul Gough
Canadian Military History
In a previous issue of Canadian Military History (Vol.5, No.l, Spring 1996) I looked at the recently unveiled Canadian War Memorial in Green Park in London, UK. I drew comparisons between the memorial and its counterparts on the Somme and at Vimy Ridge, I was fascinated by the fusion of abstract and figurative elements, and speculated that this combination of hard modernist edges with dramatic use of statuary seemed to be a particular strength of Canadian war memorials. Later that year I was invited by Professor Terry Copp to join a Canadian universities study group in France. At Caen, Normandy …
Tom Wood: Naval War Artist (1913–1997), Laura Brandon
Tom Wood: Naval War Artist (1913–1997), Laura Brandon
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Sydney, Nova Scotia And The U-Boat War, 1918, Brian Tennyson, Roger Sarty
Sydney, Nova Scotia And The U-Boat War, 1918, Brian Tennyson, Roger Sarty
Canadian Military History
During the summer of 1918. when German submarines thrust into North American coastal waters, Sydney. Nova Scotia suddenly became a major naval base and Canada’s foremost convoy assembly harbour.1 Nearly a hundred of the Royal Canadian Navy’s coastal patrol vessels came to the Cape Breton port, with at least 1,500 crewmen and shore personnel,2 but this was not enough. Britain was unable to help. Therefore the United States Navy pitched in for what was the first instance of joint operations by the armed forces of the two North American nations. Some 350 American sailors came to establish base …
Little Known Canadian Units: Royal Canadian Naval Beach Commando “W”, E.G. Finley, Ed Storey
Little Known Canadian Units: Royal Canadian Naval Beach Commando “W”, E.G. Finley, Ed Storey
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Recapturing The North: Exercises “Eskimo,” “Polar Bear” And “Lemming,” 1945, Hugh A. Halliday
Recapturing The North: Exercises “Eskimo,” “Polar Bear” And “Lemming,” 1945, Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Tactics, Training, Technology: The Rcn’S Summer Of Success, July–September 1942, Robert Fisher
Tactics, Training, Technology: The Rcn’S Summer Of Success, July–September 1942, Robert Fisher
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Leo Major, Dcm And Bar, Robert Fowler
Leo Major, Dcm And Bar, Robert Fowler
Canadian Military History
Of all the British gallantry decorations, the Distinguished Conduct Medal must be considered the most prized because it is so seldom awarded. In the Korean War, only eight such awards were made out of a total of 205 honours and awards to Canadian soldiers.1 In the Second World War, the DCM was even more rare, making up only three per cent of all honours and awards. Thus, the award of the DCM and bar, spanning both wars, to Léo Major is a remarkable accomplishment.
In Memoriam: Charles Comfort: War Artist — 1900–1994, Laura Brandon
In Memoriam: Charles Comfort: War Artist — 1900–1994, Laura Brandon
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Preparing For The “Hall Of Honour”: The Canadian War Museum, Hugh A. Halliday
Preparing For The “Hall Of Honour”: The Canadian War Museum, Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History
No abstract provided.
Commanding The Green Centre Line In Normandy: A Case Study Of Division Command In The Second World War, Angelo N. Caravaggio
Commanding The Green Centre Line In Normandy: A Case Study Of Division Command In The Second World War, Angelo N. Caravaggio
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis examines the experiences of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division as it prepared for and carried out its role in the battle of Normandy and the libeation of France in 1944. The factors that limmited opportunities to practice the formation in large-scale exercises are noted as are the methods used by the General Officer Commanding, Major-General George Kitching, to compensate for the limitations. This thesis argues that through the development of an effective commander-staff dynamic Kitching, his staff and his subordinates commanders, were able to meet the challenges and chaos of combat in the final stages of the Normandy …
The Sense Of Duty: Canadian Ideas Of The Citizen Soldier, 1896–1917, James A. Wood
The Sense Of Duty: Canadian Ideas Of The Citizen Soldier, 1896–1917, James A. Wood
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation examines the amateur military tradition as it developed in Canada between 1896 and 1917, tracing the evolution of a citizen soldier ideal which had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First World War. Prior to 1914, the central dilemma of Canadian military development was to create an army that was both inexpensive and made only limited demands on its soldiers in time of peace, but that could be expanded in war to a strength that was adequate for the defence of the country. Before the First World War, a militia of part-time citizen soldiers seemed …
Golden Pheasants And Eastern Kings: The German District Administration In The Occupied Soviet Union, 1941–1944, Stephen A. Connor
Golden Pheasants And Eastern Kings: The German District Administration In The Occupied Soviet Union, 1941–1944, Stephen A. Connor
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.
The Creation Of The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service And Its Role In Canadian Naval Intelligence And Communications, 1939-45, Julie Anne Redstone-Lewis
The Creation Of The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service And Its Role In Canadian Naval Intelligence And Communications, 1939-45, Julie Anne Redstone-Lewis
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This study explores the establishment of the Women’s Royal Naval Canadian Service (WRCNS) on the basis of its British counterpart, and the subsequent restructuring of the service better to suit Canadian needs during the Second World War. This development paralleled and complemented other efforts on the part of the Canadian navy to become more autonomous from British’s Royal Navy. Many Canadians, and the government itself, had profound reservations about the employment of women in military service, but within the navy, as in the other armed forces, these reservations were overcome by much needed skills available among the women who volunteered. …
Working Italy’S Passage: The Italian Army And The Allies’ Hopes For It In The Co-Belligerency, 1943–1944, Kate Betts-Wilmott
Working Italy’S Passage: The Italian Army And The Allies’ Hopes For It In The Co-Belligerency, 1943–1944, Kate Betts-Wilmott
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
In World War II, when Italy surrendered to the Allies in September 1943, the Italian prime minister offered all that was left on Italy’s meager resources to the Allies to help fight the German forces in Italy. Three years of war, as part of the Axis, not to mention the catastrophic mismanagement of the armistice with the Allies left Italy materially exhausted. Italy was only able to equip and field one brigade, the 1st Italian Motorized Brigade Group that they increased to a corps several months later, the Corps of Italian Liberation (CIL), despite teh fact that the Italian Army …
Operational Research In Raf Bomber Command, 1941-1945 (Britain), Randall Thomas Wakelam
Operational Research In Raf Bomber Command, 1941-1945 (Britain), Randall Thomas Wakelam
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The concept of strategic bombardment of targets by aircraft grew out of the long range bombing which took place in the First World War. By the eve of the Second World War, Royal Air Force officers and many politicians in Britain were convinced that the 'bomber would always get through.' Events in the opening months of the war proved otherwise. Bomber Command met severe losses during daylight raids and was forced to adopt night tactics. It was realized by mid-1941 that, operating in the dark, crews could not often find their targets with existing tactics and equipment. Worse, losses continued. …
Battalion Leadership In The Essex Scottish Regiment And The 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade During The Second World War, John James Maker
Battalion Leadership In The Essex Scottish Regiment And The 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade During The Second World War, John James Maker
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis project began with the general idea of examining leadership at the battalion level in the Canadian Army during the First World War. After having been brought to my attention some time later, the Essex Scottish Regiment during the Second World War piqued my interest. This unit received the highest number of casualties of any Canadian unit throughout the Second World War, yet I had not heard or read anything significant about it. I had read gallant histories of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and the Black Watch, of the Regina Rifles and the Calgary Highlanders; none of these …
Canadian Theatre: The Battle Of St. Lawrence And Its Aftermath, May-October 1942, Andrew Paul Burtch
Canadian Theatre: The Battle Of St. Lawrence And Its Aftermath, May-October 1942, Andrew Paul Burtch
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The Battle of the St. Lawrence is one of the least discussed engagements in Canadian naval history. The vast majority of those who have dealt with it write off the battle as simply a defeat for the Canadian war effort. On closer examination, however, it becomes clear that the Battle of the St. Lawrence and its aftermath, the closure of the St. Lawrence to shipping, are much more complex. The RCN and the RCAF accomplished much in coastal defence with very little resources, and though no U-boats were killed in the engagement, Canadian naval and air units working in combination …
The Occupation Of Groningen, Netherland, September 1944-April 1945 And The Liberation Of The City Of Groningen By The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, April 13-16, 1945, Ralph Dykstra
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis analyses the operations conducted by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in the liberation of the city of Groningen, Netherland in the last full month of the Second World War. As a secondary objective this treatise also gives meaning to the term liberation by analysing the nature of German occupation of Netherland and the reaction of the people to that occupation. In April 1945, it was well known to the Allies that the war was drawing to a close. The German armies were retreating on every front and it was obvious that the end was near. The advance of …
The 'Mad Fourth': The 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion At War, 1914-1916, Andrew Iarocci
The 'Mad Fourth': The 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion At War, 1914-1916, Andrew Iarocci
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.
Operational Research And The Royal Canadian Air Force Eastern Air Command's Search For Efficiency In Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1942-1945, Dean C. Ruffilli
Operational Research And The Royal Canadian Air Force Eastern Air Command's Search For Efficiency In Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1942-1945, Dean C. Ruffilli
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis analyses the contributions of operational research to the work of the Royal Canadian Air Force Eastern Air Command during the Second World War. The efforts of the handful of Canadian operational researchers in the Allied campaign against the German U-boat force, although having produced only modest results, did make a small but important contribution to the war which have been neglected by historians. The use of aircraft against submarines began during the First World War when both technologies were still in their infancy. Although initial results were poor, the handful of sinkings by aircraft demonstrated its potential as …
'Our Glory And Our Grief': Toronto And The Great War (Ontario), Ian Hugh Maclean Miller
'Our Glory And Our Grief': Toronto And The Great War (Ontario), Ian Hugh Maclean Miller
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This dissertation studies the impact of the Great War on Toronto, Ontario. What happened in the city? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized? Why did English-Canadians support it? What did citizens know about the war? The dissertation draws upon a wide and varied source base. Every issue of the following newspapers was examined: the six Toronto daily papers, The Weekly Sun, Maclean's, The Industrial Banner, Everywoman's World, The Labour Gazette, and the religious periodicals of major religious denominations in the city. In addition, extensive searches were conducted in the City of Toronto Archives, the Archives of Ontario, …
Behind The Scenes At Naval Service Headquarters: Bureaucratic Politics And The Dismissal Of Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles (John Joseph Connolly), Richard Oliver Mayne
Behind The Scenes At Naval Service Headquarters: Bureaucratic Politics And The Dismissal Of Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles (John Joseph Connolly), Richard Oliver Mayne
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.
Victims And Criminals: Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 (Belarus, Ukraine), Natalia Petrouchkevitch
Victims And Criminals: Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 (Belarus, Ukraine), Natalia Petrouchkevitch
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The issues of the Second World War have always been an important motive in state propaganda in the former USSR. Growing up in the Soviet Union I learned to associate my patriotic feelings with heroism and sacrifice of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Moreover, personal accounts of the war and occupation that I heard from the members of my family almost completely agreed with the official version of wartime history of the USSR. The Soviet accounts stressed that the struggle against invaders was almost unanimous, and many cases of passive responses to the war or collaboration were …
To Close With And Destroy: The Experience Of Canloan Officers In The North West European Campaign, 1944-1945 (World War Ii), Brian G. Rawding
To Close With And Destroy: The Experience Of Canloan Officers In The North West European Campaign, 1944-1945 (World War Ii), Brian G. Rawding
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Since the end of the Second World War the relative performance between the Allied and German Army during the North West European Campaign has become the subject of extended debate. In almost every instance, however, academics have preferred to determine conclusions without extensive examination of the soldier’s experience. This thesis is an attempt to help redress this discrepancy. Through the experiences of Canloan officers serving with the Second British Army, it is evident that the tactical reality was often more complex than has been accepted This is illuminated through the fact that the conditions of service both prior and after …
Tactical Air Power In The Normandy Campaign: The Role Of 83 Group (France), Christopher Robert Evans
Tactical Air Power In The Normandy Campaign: The Role Of 83 Group (France), Christopher Robert Evans
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
There is now over a half century of historiography regarding tactical air power in the Normandy campaign in the Second World War. Within this body of material there exists two schools of thought; by far the largest and most popular is that which argues tactical air power was effective, even decisive, in winning the campaign, primarily in the role of ‘tank-buster’. A more moderate school has attempted to refine this and instead argue that tactical air power, while effective, was not decisive, and contributed to the campaign by producing a negative ‘morale effect’ on the enemy. ln each case the …
Quasem Ilep'. I Canadian Corps Breaks The Gothic Line: Summer, 1944, Lee A. Windsor
Quasem Ilep'. I Canadian Corps Breaks The Gothic Line: Summer, 1944, Lee A. Windsor
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.
Admiral Sir Reginald Drax And British Strategic Policy: Festina Lente, Robert Lynn Davison
Admiral Sir Reginald Drax And British Strategic Policy: Festina Lente, Robert Lynn Davison
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.
Close Air Support In Normandy: The Case Of First U.S. Army And Ix Tactical Air Command. A Question Of Doctrine, Training And Experience, B. Michael Bechthold
Close Air Support In Normandy: The Case Of First U.S. Army And Ix Tactical Air Command. A Question Of Doctrine, Training And Experience, B. Michael Bechthold
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
No abstract provided.