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a teraz mówicie że Niemcy to fajny naród, a Ci młodzi na filmie się stali że strachu.

Eh ? Canadians are too nice 😅

What about the natives

Supermen indeed

so you're telling me that in a 1v1 a sherman could beat a tiger or panther? i bet you didn't hear that story about one tiger vs 50 t 34

Weve got the same with Us police on TH-cam doing worst to its civilians lol 😅seriously to think this kindve thing never happened i. The past. I mean jeesh look at what they did to Jesus Christ.

Germany saved western culture/western Europe from Stalin's planned attack/invasion. Til this day we are still told that the German forces were the "bad guys". Time for thinking people to WTFU!!!

D-day is overly exaggerated butchery. The germans were outnumbered and only killed around 2 thousand troops across the whole thing. Compared to the Easterbn front. This is a an average day of garrison work

They were captured, yes. And then they were shot.

Would not raise a fiddlers fack fer 🇨🇦 now.. foreign owned dump.. opinion

Read A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre

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Leonforte is my city

The Canadians don’t get a lot of credit for their role in D-DAY/the war in general. Thank you to all the Canadians who played a role! We will not forget you

After what the SS did to Canadian captures at the Abbaye d'Ardenne, he's lucky to make it out being able to walk and live to see the end of the war!

Of course, it wasn't universal. Nothing is in a war so massive. However, there was no doubt that there was an increased tendency to not take those prisoners.

Dey woz delt wiv

Right, who let him live ?

Private Albert Edward White 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment Died at the Somme on 1st July 1916 Aged 28 years #wearehere

All this waste of lives for the misplaced pride of a careerist general officer. Most Ortona vets had nothing but contempt for Vokes and the other incompetents after they realized why and how they ended up in Ortona! History books written by admiring young officers trying to prove themselves won’t tell you about that but all the Ortona veterans I knew sure did when they were alive!

Where was the 12 RBC stationed? Thirty years ago, this pictured was said to depict men of the 12th CAR/Three Rivers Regiment/RTR near Ortona. The 12th RBC museum in Trois-Rivières had a larger version of this picture and you could see that cap badges did look very similar and consistent to the RTR cap badges of WWII. I also remember two 12 CAR Ortona veterans (Charles Prieur & Vern Dowie) that claimed to remember this Christmas dinner at the front. They were frequent attendees at all kinds of events and mess dinners in the 70’s ,80’s and 90’s and I heard the stories several times.

After my loader got blown up in Iraq, i didnt take any more prisoners either.

It's pronounced "Gildersleeve", as with the "Great Gilbersleeve", a popular 1940's American radio show, which was also heard in many parts of Canada. But you're just a kid, so you're excused. At least you recognize Dale Gervais work.

My grandfather was with the Seaforths in Ortona and wrote two letters home to his wife on Christmas Day, which I now have. Here is how he described the dinner: "I have seen a sight today that should be written up in every paper in Canada and the men responsible should get medals. Each company came out in their turn and had Xmas dinner in a church about 500 yds from the Jerries. It was a beautiful place and we had chairs, tables, table cloths and plates. The meal was pork, cauliflower, potatoes, applesauce, Xmas cakes, pudding & coffee. There was nuts, oranges, apples, cigarettes and chocolate bars on the table. The food was cooked behind the altar & the NCOs and officers served it from there. The organ was playing in the loft and some of the boys sang carols. The Sgts and officers each had a bottle of scotch and all the boys had beer. It is the finest thing I’ve ever seen and men who can do things like that can never lose. I’m pretty proud of the outfit and awfully glad that I got the Mortars again. I’m really lucky and I sure appreciate the new colonel giving it to me. Did I tell you that Major Forin had gone down the line? Sid Thompson is now colonel and a damned good one too. I’m going to write two letters darling so this is continued in the next, so long sweet." And here's an article about Wilf, who played the organ that day: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heritage-minute-occupation-of-netherlands-1.5555463

My father was a medical officer attached to the 1/4KOYLI. About his only war story (told to me while we were watching ITV's The World At War on the TV) was of a Hitler Jugend boy who tried to stab him while he (my father) was dressing the kid's wounds. Apparently the boy had been so badly wounded and so young that the stretcher bearers who brought him in hadn't searched him properly. 'So what happened?" I asked my father. 'Oh' said my father, 'He was very weak and my orderly got the knife off him pretty easily. We finished patching him up as best we could and sent him back to division with the others ( the wounded). We did put a note though to keep an eye on him and that he might be dangerous'. And that was the story. But my father's closing comment was ' He wouldn't have been much older than you are (I was 13 at the time). It's a terrible thing to indoctrinate children like that'. Some years after my father died, I did some research on the history of the 1/4KOYLI and the incident that my Dad described probably happened during the battle for Fontenay-le-Pesnel or Tessel Wood.

The Canadiens took over 45,000 prisoners and there was no order to kill POW's . They were told not to stop and take prisoners if it would delay them taking their objective. In one incident the Germans waved a white flag and when the Canadiens moved up to take prisoners the Germans opened up with machine guns. A well documented incident occurred when the Germans took some Canadians prisoners, interrogated them, then walked them outside one at a time and shot them. In another documented incident Canadians were captured and held in the town square. The Germans machine gunned them then drove tanks over the dead and wounded. The latest research indicates there may well be truth in the story of a Canadian nailed to a barn. Can you blame the Canadians for being pissed off. When the top brass heard about the Christmas peace they ordered the troops to open fire if there was any peace overture.

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I know why, it's because hate war so much that we want it to be over with as soon as possible.

NEED TO KNOW WAS THIS THE 3RD DAVISON OF THE 8TH INFINTRY ... MY GREAT UNCLE DIE DON JUNO BEACH D DAY .... WILLIAM GILBERT MAY B64328... NEED TO ONOW WHAT DAVVISON THIS WAS