Juno Beach by Tim Saunders

Author:Tim Saunders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Published: 2004-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

However, Captain Gower, whose ‘powerful leadership and courage’ in the fighting in WN 31 was recognized and awarded one of the most well deserved Military Crosses ever issued to a Canadian soldier.

A little further to the right, ‘D Company met lesser opposition while landing, as it was clear of the actual strong point area’. With the enemy infantry in WN 31 fighting for their lives against an immediate threat, D Company was across the beach, through the shredded barbed wire and into the dunes relatively quickly with few casualties. However, without their flail tanks, a minefield in the pasture beyond the dunes halted them. A platoon of 6th Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers, who should have been clearing the beach, were redirected to assist the infantry by hand breaching the minefield, as their beach obstacles were now under water. D Company were soon on their way to la Valette and Graye-sur-Mer encountering further minefields, ‘some of which proved to be dummies, at every turn’. The Germans had marked minefields with the Achtung Minen signs stencilled in either yellow or white paint. It was only later in the day that word circulated that the signs in yellow paint were dummy minefields and could be ignored.

The WN31 command post casemate survived intact. However, the steel OP cupola was cut off after the war.

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