Hello Colin. Great work on Caen. Our cousin, Cliff Cassidy(dec'd 1992) was captured at Caen. He was in the Cdn Army, Reg unknown. Cliff's wife Kay told me that during fighting he had carried a wounded man on his back all night looking for help. At dawn, he came upon a German machine gun post w/gunner fast asleep, arms crossed over gun. With a wounded man and a hopeless situation he decided to surrender and get help for his comrade. Coming up quietly behind the gunner, as not to startle him, he gently shook him awake. Once the gunner woke up they were promptly taken POW. He never knew what happened to the wounded man. Cliff was a POW till May 45. He was from Moose Jaw, Sask. I had just remembered after seeing your video. Thank You
Thanks so much for these informative videos. My grandfather was a machine - gunner with the North Nova Scotians. It's extremely difficult outside of Canada to find any information about our brave Canadian men. They either get lumped together as British or - forgotten all together by American historians
Thanks so much for this, I have a great uncle that died in operation charnwood, he is buried at caimbes en plaine and its amazing to see you talk about it. 🙏🙏🙏
We enjoy your videos here in America you give equal justice and time to all of the allied forces including the Germans very informative history that you cannot find anywhere else keep up the good work, and I might want to add not all luftwaffe troops was untrained troop,s example the German first and third and sixth parachute division,s they were luftwaffe soldiers and they gave the Canadians British and Americans a run for their money, Monte cassino and ortona in Italy just to mention a few well know battle,s they were very well trained and would not surrendered unless they were incapacitated beyond fighting. Probably the most respected German military formation that I know of out of world war II that does not have the stain of war crimes on there records
The 12th SS division had no combat experience before being moved into the Normandy battle. But had a very experienced hardcore Eastern front leadership core from the commander right on down to senior ncos. And like most of the SS and German parachute divisions they had the best and latest equipment and supplies..
@kerrydennison7947 Yeah people can say what they want about Hitler youth and all this stuff, but let's put the average person today in the shoes of a British or Canadian soldier facing against fanatical soldiers ( regardless of their age) willing to literally fight to the last bullet. They would soon change their mind about "The Allies fought Children!" the SS were utterly ruthless.
The Allies never learn from cassino, bombing of Caen only cause more civilian casualties and more rubble, the german had retreated north , thus they were safe from the bombing😮
But Caen was taken in just over a month and they were beyond it in July. Despite facing the densest concentration of German armour ever deployed in WW2.
@kerrydennison7947 Where did they interfere? For example when Canadian general Simmonds came up with the idea of Kangaroo Rams for the infantry ( Armoured carriers) to minimise casualties, the British agreed to this and started implementing the same design for their troops. It's not like the British ignored suggestions from the Canadian leadership.
Hello Colin. Great work on Caen. Our cousin, Cliff Cassidy(dec'd 1992) was captured at Caen. He was in the Cdn Army, Reg unknown. Cliff's wife Kay told me that during fighting he had carried a wounded man on his back all night looking for help. At dawn, he came upon a German machine gun post w/gunner fast asleep, arms crossed over gun. With a wounded man and a hopeless situation he decided to surrender and get help for his comrade. Coming up quietly behind the gunner, as not to startle him, he gently shook him awake. Once the gunner woke up they were promptly taken POW. He never knew what happened to the wounded man. Cliff was a POW till May 45. He was from Moose Jaw, Sask. I had just remembered after seeing your video. Thank You
Thanks so much for these informative videos. My grandfather was a machine - gunner with the North Nova Scotians. It's extremely difficult outside of Canada to find any information about our brave Canadian men. They either get lumped together as British or - forgotten all together by American historians
Thanks so much for this, I have a great uncle that died in operation charnwood, he is buried at caimbes en plaine and its amazing to see you talk about it. 🙏🙏🙏
We enjoy your videos here in America you give equal justice and time to all of the allied forces including the Germans very informative history that you cannot find anywhere else keep up the good work, and I might want to add not all luftwaffe troops was untrained troop,s example the German first and third and sixth parachute division,s they were luftwaffe soldiers and they gave the Canadians British and Americans a run for their money, Monte cassino and ortona in Italy just to mention a few well know battle,s they were very well trained and would not surrendered unless they were incapacitated beyond fighting. Probably the most respected German military formation that I know of out of world war II that does not have the stain of war crimes on there records
great work-this guy is so knowledgeable
You've got a new sub
Very good video Colin, so interesting.
Just found your channel and absolutely loving it I've subbed liked and hit the notifications 👍👍 from me
The 12th SS division had no combat experience before being moved into the Normandy battle. But had a very experienced hardcore Eastern front leadership core from the commander right on down to senior ncos. And like most of the SS and German parachute divisions they had the best and latest equipment and supplies..
@kerrydennison7947 Yeah people can say what they want about Hitler youth and all this stuff, but let's put the average person today in the shoes of a British or Canadian soldier facing against fanatical soldiers ( regardless of their age) willing to literally fight to the last bullet.
They would soon change their mind about "The Allies fought Children!" the SS were utterly ruthless.
The Allies never learn from cassino, bombing of Caen only cause more civilian casualties and more rubble, the german had retreated north , thus they were safe from the bombing😮
But Caen was taken in just over a month and they were beyond it in July. Despite facing the densest concentration of German armour ever deployed in WW2.
there were a 100000 garrison soldiers available to the english in august 1944
Personally I believe the Canadian army could have performed much better if the British was not constantly interfering with their Canadian leadership.
@kerrydennison7947 Where did they interfere? For example when Canadian general Simmonds came up with the idea of Kangaroo Rams for the infantry ( Armoured carriers) to minimise casualties, the British agreed to this and started implementing the same design for their troops. It's not like the British ignored suggestions from the Canadian leadership.
Bollocks , the read history not petty prejudice,the Canadians were excellent soldiers limited by their own commanders.