Word: caen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized the burial of thousands of dead horses and cattle, turned over to farmers horses captured from the Germans, moved 4,000 refugees from the Caen area to the Cherbourg suburbs, imported medical supplies for Caen's wounded civilians...
...identify Canadian ships at sea is Britain's standard merchant ma rine flag with the Union Jack in the quarter of a red field - to which is added Canada's coat of arms in the fly. The Canadian beach was at Bernierès-sur-Mer, between Caen and the Orne River. There, for the first time in history, Canada fought under her own national flag...
...beginning the Canadians had tough fighting and little glory. They and the British had the pick of Rommel's armor, guns and troops in front of them. Even after the capture of Caen, they were held down and unmercifully pounded by German 88s. Grimly they hung on, giving U.S. Lieut. General Omar Bradley time to take Cherbourg. Grimly, after the surprise U.S. breakthrough at Saint-Lô, they pushed down and held the north arm of the Falaise-Argentan pincer. Only when that was done could the Canadians themselves wheel and cross the Seine...
...last they rolled on with the full tide of victory; but it was a victory won earlier-at Caen and Falaise, where, in General Eisenhower's words, "every piece of dust represented diamonds and every foot of ground was worth ten miles elsewhere...
Farther to the west Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's heavy force of Britons inched forward. Kluge's right began to give at the great hinge below Caen just as his left had been unseated two weeks before by the Americans...