The Normandy Battlefields by Marriott Leo;Forty Simon;

Author:Marriott, Leo;Forty, Simon;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 4770578
Publisher: Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Published: 2014-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Top: The battalion in a transit camp staging area prior to D-Day, early June 1944.

Inset: The shoulder and cap badges of the battalion.

Middle: Practice drop of the battalion over Salisbury Plain, February 1944. Crookenden talks of the Canadians’ first learning experience when they joined the British: getting used to dropping without the reserve chute the Canadians, following American doctrine, were used to.

Above: The cost of war: Brothers Lts Joseph Maurice Rousseau (left) and Joseph Philippe Rousseau at a transit camp near Down Ampney, England, February 13, 1944. Both officers were later killed in action, Philippe on June 7 and Maurice on September 20, 1944.

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