Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 by Gwynne Dyer

Author:Gwynne Dyer [Dyer, Gwynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-36170-7
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2014-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

Right down through 1941, the war went splendidly well for Mackenzie King. The political situation at home had stabilized, and very few Canadians were getting hurt in the war. In fact, only the air force was taking significant casualties, and even that could be turned to political advantage.

The main killing ground was over northern France and Belgium, where the British and Canadian air forces continually “harrassed the enemy” by bombing railway lines, bridges, airfields and other military targets. The raids had no real strategic purpose, since the British and Canadian armies were nowhere near ready for an attack on France at that time; they were mainly a morale-boosting activity to demonstrate that the fight wasn’t over. It was a very expensive way to accomplish very little.

There was a raid and a fighter sweep in October or November of ’41 where seven of our aircraft were shot down out of nine that wound up in combat. It was over France. In other words two pilots came back and the rest were killed or prisoners of war, so that would be the equivalent of seventy percent of the squadron being disabled.

Omer Lévesque

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