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June 6, 2018

D-Day: Canada at Juno Beach

Filed under: Cancon, France, History, Military, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

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Published on 3 Jun 2017

D-Day: Canada at Juno Beach

6 June 1944

Of the nearly 150,000 Allied troops who landed or parachuted onto the Normandy coast, 14,000 were Canadians. They assaulted a beachfront code-named “Juno”.

The Royal Canadian Navy contributed 110 ships & 10,000 sailors in support of the landings while the RCAF had helped prepare the invasion by bombing targets inland. On D-Day & during the ensuing campaign, 15 RCAF fighter & fighter-bomber squadrons helped control the skies over Normandy and attacked enemy targets. On D-Day, Canadians suffered 1074 casualties, including 359 killed.

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