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Europe
Canada release the Netherland from the Nazis. Canada had 7600
soldier dead. Canada gave the food to dutch people . On May7, is Victory in Europe day because Germany surrenderd. -
Atlantic
Germany used U-boats is a boat under water to sink supply ship to Britain from other countries. Canada made a a team of car groups of 60 supply ships to protected by small fast gun boats. About escorted 25,000 merchant ships to Britain and 1000 to Russia -
Air war
Royal Canadians Air Force was a small team in 1939, but in 1945 was the the largest city in the world. Canadians bombed German cities at the night trying to destroy factories that made wae supplise. -
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World War 2
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Britain
Royal Air Force of the pilots that defeated the German Air Force were Canadians. 3000 plances were shots down, so Germany could not invade Britain. -
Pacific
Chinese Canadian had called Force 136. They were used to sabotage Japanese war effort by deatroying Japanses weapons, briges and railways. Japanese Canadian became helped create propaganda and serve as translators. -
Hong Kong
Japan attacked USA at Pearl Harbor on December,7 1941. Canadian soldoers were protecting Hong Kong for British, Canadian troops surrenders to Japanese had better weapons, so 290 Canadian soldiers dead, 500 wounded. But 267 Japanese soldiers dead in the Japanese prison camps -
Dieppe Raid
Allies wanted to scare the Germans so they would move soldiers away from Russia and find out more about German coastal defences in France. They decided to have a short raid of France coastal town of Dieppe. 1900 became prisoners of Germany and only 2200 returned safely to Britain. 2 years later the same mistakes would not ne made again when attacking France. -
Italy
Operation Husky was the beginning of the attack on Italy. Canadian soldiers were the first to take the island of Sicily. After 1 month Sicily was captured, but 2310 Canadian soldiers were dead or wounded. Ortona was the key city n the way to capturing Rome. Defended by the best German soldiers, Canada lost over 2300 men, but used technique to capture the city. Blasted holes in the walls of buildings to avoid being shot by Germans -
D-day
D- day is mean the day of Deliverance, Canada's largest military operation of WW2. 14000 soldiers landed on the beach and 10000 sailors on 100 ships off the coast. Canada, USA and Britain attacked Normandy, France to take France back from the Germans, Canada was most successfu at Juno Beach,
