The Canadian breakout from Caen. After weeks of stalemate the British and Canadians had taken Caen on July 19th. On the 7th august operation Totalize started with the objective of taking Falaise. Ken Tout's books Thes links send me a commiion but you pay th esame price. On Amazon amzn.to/3XZwQ6u
The gun position you were on is the gun a gun position that were in support of 1bn Fusiliers Mont-Royal when they assaulted Troteval and Beauvoir Farms. If I’m not mistaken, that battle was the most costly in deaths and casualties the battalion suffer after Dieppe. A very costly battle but they old their ground on Troteval farm. I went to see the site twice. The regimental camp flag float at the farm.
It's a crying shame all these years until latest research. That Joe Atkins get credit for taking out Michael wittman, got all of the kudos and the free drinks at the veterans clubs that he did not earn they should have went to the Canadian armor unit, you should do a story on sgt pool of the American 3rd armored division. We love your highly informative history lessons here in America gives us insight that we cannot find in any of our history books. And you could incorporate Sergeant pool into your walking D-Day because the 3rd armored division did start out in Normandy at the breakout operation cobra.
I do not think that the term kangaroo was used for the personnel carriers until they converted the Canadian ram tanks into the kangaroo. And there were two different types of kangaroos one of them was used by the Canadians and the other was used by the United Kingdom army. Did British military one had a small turret on the front of it to provide some protection, the Canadian ones had 30 caliber machine guns mounted where the tank turret ring used to be at to give them a 360° Field of fire. Very informative episode 😊
Canada built their own tank that was called the Ram 1 and Ram 2. The Ram 2 early version had a small turret with a 30 cal instead of the 30 in a bow mount like the M4's. The late versions had the bow machine guns. Both were used as Kangaroos, in 2 regiments that were assigned to the 79th AD of the British Army. The regiments were assigned as needed. The late version was more common, at least in pictures. The original Kangaroos were modified M7 Priest's. Those were regunned when the Rams versions were introduced and returned to the US Army as they had been replaced by new Sexton SP's arriving from Canada.
@@tankmaker9807 The Wikipedia article on Kangaroos has the first ones being M7s. « Later Kangaroos were based on Sherman, Churchill, and obsolete Canadian Ram tanks. The process was broadly similar, with the entire turret removed, ammunition storage removed, bench seats fitted in the turret ring area, and the driver's compartment separated. Hull machine guns were retained, and new machine guns were sometimes fitted to the turret ring. Kangaroos in general were supposed to carry 8 to 12 soldiers, though similar to the practice of troops riding on tanks, it was more common to simply cram as many as could fit without being at risk of falling off. The Priest Kangaroos were first used on 8 August 1944 south of Caen during Operation Totalize to supplement the half-tracks already available.[1] When re-converted Kangaroos were returned to U.S. custody, other vehicles were pressed into service, the vast majority (some 500) being Rams, » Wikipedia isn’t the finally judge on truth, but if you have sources to contradict this, you can modify the article.
You would think that the British and polish forces would have interchanged personnel that were bilingual in order to communicate, same as the French and American forces did once the French armored divisions join general Patton's forces crossing France. I know it is off the subject, if you look at Patton's breakout and compare it to the operation market garden, you had one single road but you only had one bridge to capture and hold, and less than seven Days Patton put seven full divisions with 15000 vehicles down this one road crossing this one bridge and fan out, that is why if you read the book D-Day from the German perspective, the German generals compared Patton to a guardian, manstein and the desert fox all rolled into one package, and if you read all of the German generals post-war books they will tell you straight out general Patton is the only allied general that they actually had a fear of. Mainly because he was one of the few generals that actually commanded from the front like most of the celebrated German blitzkrieg commanders on the Eastern and Western front.
The Canadian breakout from Caen. After weeks of stalemate the British and Canadians had taken Caen on July 19th. On the 7th august operation Totalize started with the objective of taking Falaise.
Ken Tout's books
Thes links send me a commiion but you pay th esame price.
On Amazon amzn.to/3XZwQ6u
Thank you sir, very much appreciate the video and the telling of this story.
Great video Colin, love how you match the map to the ground with pictures from then and now. Cheers and stay safe
The gun position you were on is the gun a gun position that were in support of 1bn Fusiliers Mont-Royal when they assaulted Troteval and Beauvoir Farms. If I’m not mistaken, that battle was the most costly in deaths and casualties the battalion suffer after Dieppe. A very costly battle but they old their ground on Troteval farm. I went to see the site twice. The regimental camp flag float at the farm.
Spot on Colin. Thank you.
Well done! Again!
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It's a crying shame all these years until latest research. That Joe Atkins get credit for taking out Michael wittman, got all of the kudos and the free drinks at the veterans clubs that he did not earn they should have went to the Canadian armor unit, you should do a story on sgt pool of the American 3rd armored division. We love your highly informative history lessons here in America gives us insight that we cannot find in any of our history books. And you could incorporate Sergeant pool into your walking D-Day because the 3rd armored division did start out in Normandy at the breakout operation cobra.
Some caption errors. The first "Tiger" is actually a Cromwell, and then the Panzer IV beside a Tiger is captioned as a Cromwell.
I do not think that the term kangaroo was used for the personnel carriers until they converted the Canadian ram tanks into the kangaroo. And there were two different types of kangaroos one of them was used by the Canadians and the other was used by the United Kingdom army. Did British military one had a small turret on the front of it to provide some protection, the Canadian ones had 30 caliber machine guns mounted where the tank turret ring used to be at to give them a 360° Field of fire. Very informative episode 😊
I've read about Kangaroos being converted RAM tanks. All photos I've seen seem to be M7 Sexton conversions.
Canada built their own tank that was called the Ram 1 and Ram 2. The Ram 2 early version had a small turret with a 30 cal instead of the 30 in a bow mount like the M4's. The late versions had the bow machine guns. Both were used as Kangaroos, in 2 regiments that were assigned to the 79th AD of the British Army. The regiments were assigned as needed. The late version was more common, at least in pictures.
The original Kangaroos were modified M7 Priest's. Those were regunned when the Rams versions were introduced and returned to the US Army as they had been replaced by new Sexton SP's arriving from Canada.
@@tankmaker9807 The Wikipedia article on Kangaroos has the first ones being M7s.
« Later Kangaroos were based on Sherman, Churchill, and obsolete Canadian Ram tanks. The process was broadly similar, with the entire turret removed, ammunition storage removed, bench seats fitted in the turret ring area, and the driver's compartment separated. Hull machine guns were retained, and new machine guns were sometimes fitted to the turret ring. Kangaroos in general were supposed to carry 8 to 12 soldiers, though similar to the practice of troops riding on tanks, it was more common to simply cram as many as could fit without being at risk of falling off.
The Priest Kangaroos were first used on 8 August 1944 south of Caen during Operation Totalize to supplement the half-tracks already available.[1] When re-converted Kangaroos were returned to U.S. custody, other vehicles were pressed into service, the vast majority (some 500) being Rams, »
Wikipedia isn’t the finally judge on truth, but if you have sources to contradict this, you can modify the article.
@@WalkingDdayWhat you posted off wiki does not change anything that I posted. I do not use wiki as a source as it is mostly opinion.
Wasn’t just Canadians, the Brits and Poles were there too.
You’re right. I mention them all in the video. It was ostensibly a Canadian operation with the British participating and the Poles.
You would think that the British and polish forces would have interchanged personnel that were bilingual in order to communicate, same as the French and American forces did once the French armored divisions join general Patton's forces crossing France. I know it is off the subject, if you look at Patton's breakout and compare it to the operation market garden, you had one single road but you only had one bridge to capture and hold, and less than seven Days Patton put seven full divisions with 15000 vehicles down this one road crossing this one bridge and fan out, that is why if you read the book D-Day from the German perspective, the German generals compared Patton to a guardian, manstein and the desert fox all rolled into one package, and if you read all of the German generals post-war books they will tell you straight out general Patton is the only allied general that they actually had a fear of. Mainly because he was one of the few generals that actually commanded from the front like most of the celebrated German blitzkrieg commanders on the Eastern and Western front.
They didn't fear him read Harry Yeides book.
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