by Mark Zuehlke
33 Vanguard, 139.
34 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1747.
35 Vanguard, 139.
36 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1474–75.
37 Vanguard, 139–40.
38 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1475–76.
39 Vanguard, 140.
40 Meyer, 70.
41 Vanguard, 140.
42 Vanguard, 24.
43 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1476.
44 Vanguard, 24.
45 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1475.
46 Vanguard, 158.
47 “46th Royal Marine Commandos,” n.p.
48 Meyer, 71.
19: WE’VE BEEN SUCKED IN
1 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
2 Michael R. McNorgan, “Black Sabbath for the First Hussars: Action at Le Mesnil Patry, 11 June 1944,” Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758–1945, ed. Donald E. Graves (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 288.
3 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, n.p.
4 Ibid.
5 McNorgan, 288–89.
6 North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Appendix 6, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
7 12th Field Regiment, RCAWar Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
8 1st Hussars War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Appendix 10: “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” Library and Archives Canada, 1.
9 McNorgan, 294.
10 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 67.
11 Bill McAndrew, Donald E. Graves, and Michael Whitby, Normandy 1944: The Canadian Summer (Montreal: éditions Art Global, 1994), 62.
12 1st Hussars War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 6.
13 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 2 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 655–58.
14 N.a., “Interview with Major J.H. Gordon, Queen’s Own Rifles,” Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, 2.
15 Roy Whitsed, Canadians: A Battalion at War (Mississauga, ON: Burlington Books, 1996), 202.
16 Ibid.
17 McNorgan, 295.
18 1st Hussars War Diary, “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” 1.
19 Alex McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory (London: Souvenir Press, 1964), 89.
20 Jim Simpson, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Windsor, ON, 13 September 2003.
21 Bill McCormick, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Galt, ON, 3 October 2003.
22 1st Hussars War Diary, “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” 1.
23 McKee, 90.
24 McNorgan, 293.
25 A. Brandon Conron, A History of the First Hussars Regiment, 1856–1980 (n.p., 1981), 68.
26 “Interview with Major J.H. Gordon,” 2.
27 Conron, 69.
28 1st Hussars War Diary, “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” 1.
29 McNorgan, 276.
30 Ibid.
31 Conron, 69.
32 Jack Martin, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Scarborough, ON, 1 October 2003.
33 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 641–42.
34 McKee, 90.
35 Simpson interview.
36 Ibid.
37 Lieutenant R. Rae, “Special Report: Action at le Mesnil-Patry–11 June 44, Mortar Officer’s Story,” 145.2q2011(4), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, n.p.
38 Martin interview.
39 Whitsed, 203.
40 Rae, “Special Report, Action at le Mesnil-Patry–11 June 44, Results,” n.p.
41 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 658–59.
42 1st Hussars War Diary, “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” 1–2.
20: GUESS WE GO
1 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 67–68.
2 Ibid.
3 Michael R. McNorgan, “Black Sabbath for the First Hussars: Action at Le Mesnil Patry, 11 June 1944,” Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758–1945, ed. Donald E. Graves (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 301.
4 Meyer, 68.
5 Art Boyle, interview by John Gregory Thompson, London, ON, 30 September 2003.
6 Lieutenant R. Rae, “Special Report: Action at le Mesnil-Patry–11 June 44, Results,” 145.2q2011(4), Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, n.p.
7 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 2 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 678.
8 Ibid., 679.
9 Ibid.
10 McNorgan, 304.
11 Ibid., 305.
12 Bill McCormick, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Galt, ON, 3 October 2003.
13 Ibid.
14 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, n.p.
15 1st Hussars War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 7.
16 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade War Diary, n.p.
17 1st Hussars War Diary, 7.
18 “1st Hussars Drive Into Ambush, Save Caen Hinge, in Saga of Sacrifice at Caen,” London Evening Free Press, 9 September 1944, p. 1.
19 McNorgan, 305–306.
20 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 641–42.
21 1st Hussars War Diary, 7.
22 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 3, 1448.
23 Jim Simpson, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Windsor, ON, 13 September 2003.
24 Alex McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory (London: Souvenir Press, 1964), 92.
25 A. Brandon Conron, A History of the First Hussars Regiment, 1856–1980 (n.p., 1981), 73.
26 Larry Allen, “WWII Diary of L. Allen—The Story of a D-Day Soldier,” 1st Hussars Regimental Museum.
27 McCormick interview.
28 Jack Martin, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Scarborough, ON, 1 October 2003.
29 McNorgan, 307–308.
30 Ibid., 308.
31 Jack Martin interview.
32 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 683.
33 John Marteinson and Michael R. McNorgan, The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: An Illustrated History (Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000), 247.
34 Simpson interview.
21: VIVE LE CANADA!
1 1st Hussars War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Appendix 10: “Account of Personal Experiences in Action on Sun Jun 11–44 by Trooper I.O. Dodds,” Library and Archives Canada, 2–3.
2 Larry Allen, “WWII Diary of L. Allen—The Story of a D-Day Soldier,” 1st Hussars Regimental Museum.
3 Roy Whitsed, Canadians: A Battalion at War (Mississauga, ON: Burlington Books, 1996), 203–205.
4 Howard Margolian, Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 112–16.
5 Jean E. Portugal, We Were There: The Navy, the Army and the RCAF—A Record for Canada, vol. 2 (Shelburne, ON: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 1998), 1024–25.
6 Col. C.P. Stacey, The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944–1945, vol. 3 (Ottawa: Queen’s Printer, 1960), 140.
7 W.T. Barnard, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, 1860–1960: One Hundred Years of Canada (Don Mills, ON: The Ontario Publishing Co., 1960), 202–203.
8 Hubert Meyer, The History of the 12. SS-Panzerdivision “Hitlerjugend” (Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1994), 69.
9 1st Hussars War Diary, n.p.
10 Meyer, 69.
11 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 2, 683.
12 A. Brandon Conron, A History of the
First Hussars Regiment, 1856–1980 (n.p., 1981), 74.
13 Barnard, 203.
14 Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno: I SS Panzer Corps in Normandy (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997), 106.
15 Dave Kingston, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Mississauga, ON, 10 September 2003.
16 Charles Martin, Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994), 22–23.
17 Jim McCullough, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Loretto, ON, 9 September 2003.
18 Jim Simpson, interview by John Gregory Thompson, Windsor, ON, 13 September 2003.
19 Martin, 23.
20 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 5, 2318–19.
21 Ibid., 2318.
22 Jacques Henry, La Normandie en flammes: journal de guerre du capitaine Gérard Leroux, officier d’intelligence au Régiment de la Chaudière, trans. Alex McQuarrie (Conde-sur-Noireau: C. Corlet, 1984), 397–98.
23 Le Régiment de la Chaudière War Diary, June 1944, RG24, Library and Archives Canada, 378.
24 Max Hastings, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle For Normandy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), 130.
25 Napier Crookenden, Dropzone Normandy: The Story of the American and British Airborne Assault on D-Day 1944 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976), 267.
26 John R. Madden, recorded recollections, 1987, University of Victoria Special Collections.
27 Dan Hartigan, A Rising of Courage: Canada’s Paratroops in the Liberation of Normandy (Calgary: Drop Zone Publishers, 2000), 232.
28 Madden recorded recollections.
29 Ibid.
30 Hartigan, 234.
31 Ibid., 234–35.
32 Ibid., 235–37.
33 Ibid., 239.
34 Madden recorded recollections.
35 Portugal, We Were There, vol. 5, 857–59.
36 Ibid.
37 Stacey, 140.
38 Ibid.
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