Posted by LAA on November 13, 2010 at 09:21:54 from (86.51.147.113):
In Reply to: Re: foumd in a cemetery posted by buickanddeere on November 13, 2010 at 07:55:35:
While it is true that Canada joined Britain and France in declaring war on Germany in September of 1939 it is also true that Canadian troops barely fired a shot in the european theatre until 1943. Canadian troops were mostly stationed in Great Britain and since no land invasion ever took place there was not much action for the infantry until Sicily. The threat and strength of the British Navy and Airforce are what kept Hitler from invading the British mainland in 1940/41 and then he spread his troops to thin in the invasion of Russia. As far as pure number and percentage of troops there were far and away more American combat troops overseas by late 1942 than Canada could have or ever did muster. At least half of the Canadian troops never left Canada. If, in 1940, had Hitlers only deterrent to invasion and occupation of Great Britain and her colonies been British and Canadian ground forces your user name might be Volkswagonandfendt instead of Buickanddeere.
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