🍁 81 years ago the Allies landed in Normandy, learn more about D-Day | 🍁 Il y a 81 ans, les Alliés débarquent en Normandie

We wanted to share this item from the Juno Beach Centre on this, the 81st anniversary of D-Day.


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Le 6 juin 1944, 14 000 Canadiens et 7 000 Britanniques débarquent sur Juno Beach.

Entre 7h30 et 8h00, les unités de la 3eme division d’infanterie canadienne, soutenues par les chars de la 2ème division blindée, prennent d’assaut les huit kilomètres de plages qui s’étendent de Saint-Aubin à Graye-sur-Mer.

Au prix de nombreuses vies, les troupes canadiennes parviennent à vaincre toute résistance et à s’avancer dans les terres. Le 6 au soir, la tête de pont canadienne est fermement établie sur la côte normande.

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On June 6, 1944, 14,000 Canadians and 7,000 Brits landed on Juno Beach.

Between 7:30-8:00am, units from the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, supported by tanks of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, launched attacks along an eight-kilometre stretch of beach between Saint-Aubin and Graye-sur-Mer.

Despite the heavily entrenched enemy, the Canadians overcame all resistance and started inland. By evening, a Canadian bridgehead had been solidly established on the coast of Normandy. So started the Battle of Normandy.

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Curious about the different Canadian Army units in the Normandy landings?
Nos ressources en ligne contiennent des informations sur chaque unité de l’armée canadienne qui a débarqué en Normandie, y compris des détails sur leurs objectifs, leur avancée et leurs pertes.

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Our online resources contain information on each Canadian Army unit that landed in the Normandy landings, including details on their objectives, timing and casualties.

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Cérémonie du Jour J au Centre Juno Beach / Juno Beach Centre D-Day Ceremony
Malgré une averse en début d’après-midi, un grand nombre de personnes ont assisté à la cérémonie du Jour J au Centre Juno Beach en Normandie. Le soleil s’est finalement invité pour accueillir les délégations et les élus de France, du Royaume-Uni et du Canada.
Si vous l’avez manquée, vous pouvez revoir la retransmission en direct sur Facebook ici.

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Despite an early afternoon downpour, a large crowd attended the D-Day Ceremony at the Juno Beach Centre in Normandy. The sun eventually came out to welcome delegations and elected officials from France, the United Kingdom and Canada.
If you missed it, you can rewatch the livestream on Facebook here.

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An item from Veterans Affairs Canada that may be of interest to members.


Ceremony marks 25th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

An item from the Legion Magazine.


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King Charles III waves to the crowd as he and Queen Camilla depart the National War Memorial after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier the day before the 25th anniversary ceremonies.[Stephen J. Thorne/Legion Magazine]

Ceremony marks 25th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A quarter century ago, an unidentified Canadian soldier killed at the seminal First World War Battle of Vimy Ridge was ceremonially exhumed from his grave 8.5 kilometres away in Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery and brought home to Canada.

Vimy, because it was here, in France in April 1917, that all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together for the first time, claiming—under unprecedented Canadian leadership—a victory that would propel the country to its rightful place in the war, and the world. Brought home, because Canadians—indeed, all secure, free-living people—need reminding of what it took, and still takes, to keep them secure and free.

More than 18,000 of the over 66,000 Canadians killed in the Great War were never identified, their names listed on the Vimy Memorial (11,285) and the Menin Gate in Belgium (6,940). This soldier was destined to represent them all and the 27,000 who remain unidentified from the Second World War, 16 from Korea and undetermined others from the Boer War and other conflicts.

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Mandy Shintani admires a samurai sword at the Nikkei National Museum.

“Samurai in Our Closet”: New podcast highlights Japanese-Canadian WW II service and civilian internment

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

Mandy Shintani remembers the samurai in her family closet.

Just a child at the time, the third-generation Japanese-Canadian—or Sansei—had little understanding of where, exactly, the sword came from and why it was there.

It belonged to her father, that much she knew, but the reason it stayed hidden away and how it had come into his possession in the first place remained unanswered.

“When I was a kid,” explained Shintani, “I didn’t even know he’d been interned,” referring to Canada’s racially motivated policies of the Second World War where more than 22,000 Japanese-Canadians were forcibly removed from the West Coast, then incarcerated after Japan launched the Dec. 7, 1941, assault on Pearl Harbor.

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