Posts Tagged ‘Operation Overlord’
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Fighting Normandy’s Terrain: Army, Part 90
This story marks the start of a new series on the Canadian Army’s experience during the campaign in Normandy and Northwest Europe, 1944-45. Having just returned from another battlefield study tour with eight students from my university, Wilfrid Laurier, and an equal number from the Université de Montréal, I have been reflecting on the enormous changes that have occurred since my first visit to these battlefields in the early 1980s.
October 18, 2010, by Terry Copp
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Normandy Campaign Timeline
The following timeline on the D-Day invasion and Normandy Campaign represents a rough sketch of how the fighting progressed during the summer of 1944. More specific details can be found in many fine books on the subject.
August 1943: The plan to invade France is endorsed during the Quebec Conference attended by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
PHOTO: NATIONAL FILM BOARD/LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA
August 1943.
May 8, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower settles on June 5, 1944, as the date of the cross-Channel Normandy invasion. It is also decided that in the event of bad [...]
May 8, 2009, by Dan Black
