On June 6, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to open the way to Germany from the West. Victory in the Normandy campaign would come at a terrible cost. The Canadians suffered the most casualties of any division in the British Army Group. On this Remembrance Day we return to the Battle of Normandy, we want to re-visit our thoughts and feelings of our visit to Bény-sur-Mer, the Canadian cemetery for the Juno Beach dead. We drive today to the Normandy beaches where the Allied invasion of Europe began in 1944. This means that we drive through Caen,
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On June 6, 1944, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to open the way to Germany from the West. Victory in the Normandy campaign would come at a terrible cost. The Canadians suffered the most casualties of any division in the British Army Group. On this Remembrance Day we return to the Battle of Normandy, we want to re-visit our thoughts and feelings of our visit to Bény-sur-Mer, the Canadian cemetery for the Juno Beach dead. We drive today to the Normandy beaches where the Allied invasion of Europe began in 1944. This means that we drive through Caen, […]

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