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Battle of Bratain
Battle of Britain
25 of the pilots in the Royal Air Force(RAF) that defeated the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) were Canadians. British PM Churchill said “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” 3000 Nazi planes were shot down, so Germany could not invade Britain. -
Battle of Atlantic
Battle of Atlantic
This was the longest continuous military campaign, Canada set up convoys that were protected by corvettes Safely escorted 25,000 merchant ships to Britain and 1000s to Russia. Germany failed. -
Battle of Hong Kong
Battle of Hong Kong
Japan attacked USA at Pearl harbor Dec 7 1941. Inexperienced Canadian soldiers were protecting Hong Kong for the British. Canadian troops surrendered to Japanese Dec 25 after 17 days of fighting. Japanese has better weapons (airplanes and battle ships) 290 Canadians died, 500 wounded. 267 died in Japanese prison camps. -
Battle of Dieppe
Battle of Dieppe
Germany attacted France, the raid took place on the northern coast of France on 19 August 1942. Canada helped to fight with Germany, but failed. Lots of Canadian soldiers died and wounded. -
Air war
air war
Canadians bombed German cities at night tryig to destroy factories that made war supplies. Not very successful as many pilots died and factories were not totally destroyed. It was the 4th largest in the world -
The battle of Ortona
The battle of Ortona
Operation Husky was the beginning of the attack on Italy. Canadian soldier were the first to take the island of Sicily. -
Europe
Europe
Canada freed the Netherlands from the Nazis. Canada gave good to the Dutch people who were so happy they threw flowers (tulips) at the Canadian soldiers. Canada had built Corvettes during the battle of Europe -
D- day
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Bratian had figured out the code of Germany, Canada, USA and Britain attacked Normandy, france to take France back from the Germans. Canada was most successful at Juno Beach -
Battle for the Pecific
Battle of specific
Chinese Canadian people and Japanese Canadian people helped Chinese to aginest Japanese soldiers who wanted to occupy China. Chinese Canadian even had elite commando unit called Force 136
The next day, the Allies accepted Germany’s surrender
