{"id":17000,"date":"2012-09-20T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17000"},"modified":"2019-04-23T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:12:34","slug":"rewriting-a-crucial-moment-in-ww2-9th-canadian-infantry-brigade-on-d1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/rewriting-a-crucial-moment-in-ww2-9th-canadian-infantry-brigade-on-d1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting a crucial moment in WW2: 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade on D+1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the Canadian part of the D-Day landings and the days that followed, you&#8217;ll probably want to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca\/milner-9-brigade-chapter-correction\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Canadian Military History<\/em><\/a> site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marc Milner\u2019s Chapter, \u201cNo Ambush, No Defeat: The Advance of the Vanguard of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June 1944\u2033 in <em>Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp<\/em> rewrites the history of 9 Brigade on D-Day+1. The defeat of 9 Brigade has always been used a prime example of the flawed nature of Allied leadership and combat capability and proof of the superior fighting skill of German forces. Milner challenges this assessment, arguing \u201cthe vanguard of 9 Brigade fought an enemy at least three times its size to a standstill, and did so largely without the crucial component of Anglo-Canadian doctrine: artillery support \u2026 in the process 9 Brigade met and defeated a portion of the panzer forces that the 3rd Canadian Division had been tasked with destroying. So maybe 9 Brigade did all right on D+1 after all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The revised chapter to the book has been made available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/milner-no-ambush-no-defeat-essays-in-honour-of-terry-copp-Sept-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">freely downloadable PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in the Canadian part of the D-Day landings and the days that followed, you&#8217;ll probably want to visit the Canadian Military History site: Marc Milner\u2019s Chapter, \u201cNo Ambush, No Defeat: The Advance of the Vanguard of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 7 June 1944\u2033 in Canada and the Second World War: Essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1117,1118,7,5,230],"tags":[31,974,954,1103],"class_list":["post-17000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-army","tag-d-day","tag-firstcanadianarmy","tag-infantry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17001,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17000\/revisions\/17001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}