> kind of dwarfed by the tens of thousands of Brits who crossed the Channel on June 6, 1944, isnt it?
It certainly is. And for the Britain and Canada it was the second time across the channel, with the disastrous raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942.
At Dieppe the Allies learned many of the lessons necessary for D-Day to be successful, but only after incurring a cost of 3,623 killed, captured or wounded.
No shortage of British and Canadian blood shed on Sarkozy’s country. It’s shameful that he has snubbed our Queen in this manner.
Yes, the Canadians and the Brits (and the ANZACS, not to omit the unheralded Indian troops) did a great flanking job in Belgium, as I recall, which protected Paris from the Schlieffen Plan German Army in both 1914 and 1915.