The Second Push “Our last chance has come, Today is the day that it must happen.” Thomas thought of the speech his commanding officer had given as his boats cruise through the English channel heading straight to Normandy France. He looks straight into his best friend as they edged closer and closer to Juno beach. They were the last boat off the coast of Britain. Hearing all the radio calls of what has happening on the beach, they knew they were going for a death run. BOOM the sound that every soldier dreads, as the doors lowered the sound of gunfire grew louder and louder. Thomas took his first step on the beach only to hear a loud horn with the follow up of a call to retreat. As the allied troops ran to the boats machine gun bullets butchered …show more content…
Only after four months of peace Thomas and his brother Jaxson were called to the Canadian navy. They were taught to operate the new corvettes. Then they were placed off the coast of Prince Edward Island. Worried Thomas and Jaxson asked their close Friend Timothy why they are here. Timothy looked around the took them to a secret room and told them “ we intercepted a message from the Germans. They are planning to invade!” Six months passed since that conversation and nothing had happen. Then on April 6 1945 Jaxson spotted a blip on the RADAR followed by a cluster of dots. Only Seconds later a large BOOM occurred followed up by a sound of a siren. This marked the beginning of the Battle of West. The battle was long and destructive. It lasted lasted two months but the German bombardment inflicted little damage to the Canadian Corvettes. The Germans lost over 400 ships and half of their submarines as for Canada, it was left with a crippled navy and a destroyed coast. This caused Canadians to lose many food supplies business and many houses leaving many homeless and unemployed. With the home land crippled the Canadian government along with the United States pulled out of the …show more content…
“Nice and silent alright boys, don’t draw too much attention.”The elite troopers snuck through a back door killing all Germans in sight. After an hour of silent killings the Canadian Elite paratroopers freed enough men to make a new army. The same can not be said for Thomas now leading an armada of destroyers, corvettes and submarines based on a German design, he wanted to attract as much attention to draw the Germans away from the prisons. After two month of fight at sea the allies broke through the naval defences and landed in France. Having surrounded the coastal defences from front and behind the battle lasted only a short week. During the next 5 months Canadian troops lead the way as the allies tore through the European main land Wiping out any German defences. Jaxson and Thomas stopped only 5 miles from the capital of Germany, Berlin. The western allies waited 4 months for the USSR to open an eastern front. Finally on January 20th 1950 the Russian red army bombarded the German eastern front. Thomas and Jaxson heard about it the next day rushed to launch their western push. The Two sides met in Berlin on January 31 1950. They traced Hitler to a bunker under the city. Thomas and Jaxson stood in front of a bunker where Hitler was hiding in. Three days passed, nothing happen. On the fourth day the sound of two gun shots marked the end of Hitler's rule. He and his doctor
In 1942, the Allies decided to help out the Soviet Union and opened up another front to the war in Western Europe. The United States and Britain did not have a large enough military to mount an invasion at the time but they had drawn up plans to prepare for an invasion in case Germany’s western front weakened or the Soviet Union was put into dire straits. In August of 1942 the Canadians attempted an invasion of the French port city of Dieppe. It was a poorly planned and coordinated invasion that was meant to be a test the defense that Germany had established that ended in disaster, nearly 5,000 troops were either killed, wounded, or captured. In July 1943, British, American, and Canadian troops invaded Sicily as the western front expanded from Africa into Europe. The valuable experience from the amphibious landings in southern Europe would be used to launch to launch the largest invasion force in the world to crack open the solid ...
Canada's West coast was largely unprotected before the Great War. Although Japan, an ally of the British Empire, was tasked to protect the northern Pacific, the stationed Royal Navy -- and later the Royal Canadian Navy -- units at Esquimalt (RCN's only West Coast Base) in BC units was virtually nonexistent. The aged cruiser HMCS Rainbow lay at the harbour, and the two nearest sloops were the Shearwater and Algerine. It was known at the time that two modern German Cruisers, Leizig and Nurnbeg, was stationed in the Pacific, specifically by the West Coast of Mexico; some local sightings affirmed their proximity even closer to the Canadian West Coast.
The battle is over. The NVA forces had suffered hundreds of casualties and were no longer capable of a fight. U.S. forces had suffered 79 killed and 121 injured and had been reinforced that would guarantee their safety the safety of all the companies as they medivacd all the wounded and dead, and resupplied. The actions taken by Moore and his command group, from Company Commanders to NCO’s, saved the lives of numerous American soldiers. This battle shows the leadership and unit discipline needed to survive and be combat effective in adverse situations.
In the late May in 1918, the German forces put together four divisions and launched the Aisne offensive. The bombardment began at one in the morning on May 27th. The British and French front lines were torn apart by the current waves of German infantry and artillery. Both armies began to disintegrate before the might of the Germans, and were unable to halt the advancement of their awesome force. The Germans didn’t press further after the Marnes River, giving the French time to call in reinforcements and American assistance. When the American forces arrived, a French office asked Marine Colonel Wendell C. Neville if a tactical retreat would be in order, he replied with th...
This event impacted and shaped Canada in which it was a major turning point in the war. Until then, the war hadn’t been going too well for Canada and its allies.
The landing sites were poorly planned, and the Germans were able to fire shells at Allied landing crafts when they were still 10 minutes away from shore. After six grueling hours of slaughtering the raid was called off. Out of the 6033 Allied troops 4963 were Canadian, 907 of them were killed, 587 were wounded, and 1946 were captured.Dieppe was the greatest sacrifice of Canadian lives during this war.This event was known as the Disaster at Dieppe, but was a valuable learning for Canada and the Allied soldiers. It taught them that the element of surprise is crucial for success. It also taught them patience and to never underestimate your opponent. Maybe they got cocky from WW1 and thought, oh we conquered them there so it's no problem and we could do it here. Nonetheless Canadian troops in Britain spend more than 4 years preparing to invade France, which was occupied by Germany. This vent was called D-Day. Since Dieppe, the Allies had improved their landing craft and communication links. They also provided more effective air and naval support for the troops. The invasion was called “Operation Overlord” and was launched on the morning of June 6th,
Although, World War II lasted 6 years, the Battle of the Bulge with its planning, skills, and landings marked the “beginning of the end.” The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944 and was a last ditch attempt started by Adolf Hitler to separate Britain, France, and America into two. Hitler was sure that the Allies- Britain, France, and America- were not strong enough for the German forces and that he could disperse their coalition and cut off the Allies. Adolf’s plan was to launch an immense attack using three armies. He wanted to abolish, or take a huge port, of Ahtwerp which is where the Allies got a large portion of their supplies. While his plan was a very illogical plan, he believed that it would work. Germany had been in a retreat since D-Day and was looking for some way or somehow to defeat to Allies (Trueman),
...n May 8th, 1945, the Allied side had won. This battle had been a very violent won and there were deep losses for both sides. 24 The most important key to success of this Battle was the safe escort of 25 000 merchant ships under the escort of the Canadians. 25 These ships were so important because they carried over 165 million supplies for any country in the allied forces. Canada had been a bigger help to Britain than any other country in the Allied forces, 26 “By late 1942, the RCN supplied 48 percent of the escort warships in the North Atlantic and the United States navy a mere 2 percent ” (page 50, Harbon D. John). Without Canada’s contributions to this battle, it may not have been a successful one. In conclusion the Royal Canadian Navy and any other Canadian that participated in the war effort, had been very important contributions to the Battle of The Atlantic.
Immediately, the Battle of the Atlantic began when “the British announced a naval blockage of Germany” on September 3, 1939(“World War II” 391). Eight days later the Germans ordered a “counter-blockage” of the Allies(“World War II” 391). The Germans hoped to stop the shipments of war supplies and food to the countries of France and Britain. After only four months into the war, German U-boats, mines, airplanes, and surface raiders had destroyed more than 215 merchant ships and two of Britain’s largest warships. Over 1,500 people had been killed in this short time. “It was clear that despite the lull on land, a long war lay ahead on the world’s water” (Pitt 8).
In the spring of 1940 Europe was enveloped in war. The German military machine had already conquered Poland, Denmark, and Norway. However, not content with northern and eastern expansion, Adolf Hitler wanted to control the western countries in Europe. Hitler had long been obsessed with attacking and controlling France. After their defeat in World War I, the German people, government, and military were humiliated by the enormous post war sanctions leveraged against them from the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler wanted to defeat and humiliate the French people in the same way that his country had to experience. For him, revenge was necessary. The German plan was to swing into France using a new tactic know as Blitzkrieg or “Lightning War”. Blitzkrieg used speed and surprise along with highly concentrated tank corps, supported by mechanized infantry and airplanes.
As the sun was rising up over the Normandy coast at 5 a.m. on June 6, 1944, Canada was given a key role by the planners of the Allied forces to help free Europe from Germany’s invasion by invading Juno Beach. This was known as the greatest seaborne invasion in history; a great accomplishment for a great nation. The allied forces were dependent upon Canada’s successful invasion to continue fighting in Europe and establish a protected area for troops and supplies to land. Canada’s strong contributions to Operation Overload, compared to other Allies, had played an essential role in the success of the operation. Even though the allies did achieve victory, due to ineffectual commanders and poorly made decisions from executed commands and decisions many more allies were killed while prolonging Operation Overload.
Before the landings were to begin, the coastal German defenses had to be adequately prepped, and softened by a combination of a massive battering by United States ships, and bombing by the United States Air Force. Between the hours of 0300 and 0500 hours on the morning of June 6, over 1,000 aircraft dropped more than 5,000 tons of bombs on the German coastal defenses. As soon as the preliminary bombing was over, the American and British naval guns opened fire on the Normandy coastline (D' Este 112). A British naval officer described the incredible spectacle he witnessed that day: "Never has any coast suffered what a tortured strip of French coast suffered that morning; both the naval and air bombardments were unparalleled. Along the fifty-mile front the land was rocked by successive explosions as the shells of ships' guns tore holes in fortifications and tons of bombs rained on them from the skies. Through billowing smoke and falling debris defenders crouching in this scene of devastations would soon discern faintly hundreds of ships and assault craft ominously closing the shore.
In the early morning of 19 February 1945, United States Marines assigned to the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Division led the initial assault on the Japanese controlled island of Iwo Jima, with the objective of capturing and securing the island. This was the beginning of one of the fiercest and bloodiest; and more decisively, the most strategically important battles fought during World War II. After the dust had settled, and the smoke had cleared, the causalities and losses were astounding. 6,821 U.S. Marines along with 18,844 members of the Imperial Japanese Army had paid the ultimate sacrifice. A decisive US victory on the island of Iwo Jima later played a pivotal role in the overarching defeat of the Japanese Empire and its Armed Forces (Morison, 1945).
...rounded in Europe with the British and the U.S. pressing in from the west, and the Russians coming in from the east killing about half the German army in the war. Since Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945 Germany was falling apart and didn’t have a powerful leader to guide them. So, Germany decided to invade Russia, and they were horribly equipped for winter warfare, and had summer equipment when they invaded. This was because Hitler anticipated they would have beaten Russia before winter. Russia kept the German army occupies while the other allies liberated France. On January 12th, 1945 the Soviet Union invaded Berlin, Germany at the Battle of Berlin and succeeded. In late April and early May of 1945 Germany surrendered to the Allies and World War Two came to an end. As General Eisenhower said in 1945, “The world must know what happened, and never forget”.
Going back in time, Normandy is home to one of the most vital and important invasions of not only World War Two, but of all time. The D-Day invasions, also...