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Pacific Battle
Pacific BattleChinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian served behind enemy lines, their missions included sabotage operation deep in the jungle, and Japanese Canadian translated to help interrogating Japanese prisoners, wrote and broadcasted propaganda to isolated Japanese units, and monitored Japanese radio broadcasts. -
Britain Battle
The Britain Battle happened in Word War 2, the German Air Force attacked Britain. But Britain's Royal Air Force is better than Germany Air Force, so Germany lost 3000 Nazi planes. Finally, Germany could not invade Britain. -
Atlantic Battle
Atlantic Battle1940-1943 As the demands for escort protection increased, shipyards in Canada and Britain turned out additional escorts at an astounding rate. -
Air War Battle
Air War Battle1941 - 1942 the Allies carried out a series of bombing raids on Germany. On the first of January 1944 the RCAF reached its peak wartime strength of 215,200 all ranks (including 15,153) women, 104,000 were in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 64,928 were serving at home and 46,272 were serving overseas. There were 78 squadrons in service: 35 overseas, 43 at home (of which six had been ordered overseas). -
Hong Kong Battle
Japan attacked USA at Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941. Inexperienced Canadian soldiers were protecting Hong Kong for the British Canadian troops surrenders to Japanese Dec 25 after 17 days of fighting. Japanese had better weapons (airplanes and battle ships)
290 Canadians died. 500 wounded. 267 died in Japanese prison camps. -
Dieppe Battle
August 1942, Canadian troops were sent to test German forces along the French coast at Dieppe900 Canadians died, 1000 wounded , 1900 became prisoners of Germany and only 2200 returned safely to Britain. 2 years later the same mistakes would not be made when attacking France. -
Italy Battle
July 1943 , the canadian took a part in the invasion of sicily. Later year Canadian soldiers landed on mainland Italy. ( Out of 93 000 Canadian served in Italy and more than 5700 died. ) 1945 Allies won control of Italy.
The Allies included Canada, France , Britain , USSR and the US ) -
D-Day Battle
D-Day BattleDay of Deliverance was fixed for 5th June 1944. It was Canada’s largest military operation. Parachutists were dropped behind enemy lines.Canadian soldiers landed at Juno Beach, they faced underwater obstacles, land mines, barbed wire and heavy machine-guns fire from Germans. They had 335 dead and 739 other casualties. -
Europe Battle
While forces were landing on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day other Allied forces invaded Europe from the south through Italy and France. Canadian units had to clear German forces from the channel ports.
