{"id":31300,"date":"2015-06-06T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31300"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:56:08","slug":"canada-at-war-normandy-june-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/06\/06\/canada-at-war-normandy-june-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Canada at War<\/em> &#8211; Normandy, June 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4KvSO-yIcgk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 10 Jan 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part 1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>June &#8211; September 1944. D-Day, June 6, 1944. In the early morning hours, infantry carriers, including 110 ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, cross a seething, pitching sea to the coast of France, while Allied air forces pound enemy positions from the air. Cherbourg, Caen, Carpiquet, Falaise, Paris are liberated. Canadians return, this time victorious, to the beaches of Dieppe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nS2RoTln5cY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJGQcYZzNSk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2015\/05\/thursday-night-canada-at-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded on 10 Jan 2012 Part 1 of 3 June &#8211; September 1944. D-Day, June 6, 1944. In the early morning hours, infantry carriers, including 110 ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, cross a seething, pitching sea to the coast of France, while Allied air forces pound enemy positions from the air. Cherbourg, Caen, Carpiquet, [&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":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,1117,7,5],"tags":[1505,974,954,1245],"class_list":["post-31300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-france","category-history","category-military","tag-caen","tag-d-day","tag-firstcanadianarmy","tag-normandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-88Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300","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=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79716,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions\/79716"}],"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=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}