Canada in WW2

As this question is in the "Canada In World War Two" folder, I would imagine the person wants to know about the specifics of the conscrition crisis in Canada, during that war. During WW2, Canada had two types of soldiers, those that "volunteered to fight" and those that "refused to fight" The first group went overseas and fought and represented Canada very well, while the second group sat on their asses in Canada, being paid and fully trained, but refusing to fight. They were called "Zombies" and most were from Quebec. Cowards every one. Even today, Canadian WW2 veterans have very little good to say about the Province of Quebec and the cowards that were the ZOMBIES. Jim Bunting. Toronto.

Canada at the time and still is part of the British Commonwealth along with Britain, Australia and New Zealand. This mean when Britain got involved, so did Canada but wasn't fully involved.

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Canada was indeed "fully involved". Army, navy and air force along with massive movement of supplies, merchant navy all participated in the war. 42,789 Canadians were killed and approx 97,988 were wounded during the war. To even suggest Canada "wasn't fully involved" is insulting to the huge effort and sacrifices made by Canadians.

About 16 million soldiers fought in World War 2

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You need to say which army.

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You volunteer (you enlist or join the Army).

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Canada declared war almost immediately. It was already committed to defense of the Pacific because of the deployment of two Canadian infantry battalions to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Those battalions, the first Canadians to see land action in World War II, were destroyed when the Japanese took Hong Kong. I wrote an article on it for World War II History magazine. That was also the only land battle Canadian troops fought against the Japanese. Canada also moved to intern Japanese-Canadians during the war. During WWII, Pearl Harbour had an immense effect on Canada. Around 1,352 Canadian men lost their lives here, and many others were injured.

There were considerable units around Crowborough, Sussex., I was based at one camp West Camp Crowborough 1952-55 that had been a Canadian base in 1943-44. There were still assault courses and equipment there in 1952.

Well they did assault Juno beach and manage to penetrate further into France than any other landing force. Also Juno beach was the second most heavily defended beach. Candian minesweepers also cleared mines in the waters near the beach before the landing to help landers reach the beach and there were Canadian Paratroopers Dropped into France I'm pretty sure to help liberate objectives before the main forces arrived.

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There were no Canadian paratroopers in Europe with the Americans Idiot

Canada's Role was to help the british Eight Army fight it's way up the Adriatic coast, in hopes of beating the US to Rome. Canada played a major Part in breaking many of the German defenses. Canadians broke the Moro River line thatpaved the way to Ortona. The Loyal Edmonton Regiment and The Seaforth Highlanders Of Canada captured the town of Ortona, defeating the 1st German Fallschirmjager (Paratrooper)division. They then broke through the Liri Valley and finally the Gothic Line. they were first to rome but sadly fell to the pressure of the US and let states liberate Rome.

The 1st Canadian Infantry Division was sent to Italy in July 1943 for service in Sicily. The 1st Division consisted of three infantry brigades and an armoured brigade and totaled 18,347 men at full strength.

The 1st Canadian Infantry Division served as part of the British 8th Army, along with the 2nd Polish Corps and 5th British Corps(but this changed over time). By February 1945, the 1st Canadian Division was withdrawn out of Italy and sent to Germany just prior to end of WW2.

Quote of General Patton: "The Canadians are the best troops Montgomery has, and they're American!"

Reference Sources:

Nicholson, G. W. L., "The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, Vol 2". Ottawa; Queen's Printer, 1956.

Stacey, Col. C. P., "Six Years of War; The Army in Canada, Britain and the Pacific, Vol 1", Minister of National Defense, 1955.

Zuehlke, Mark; "Ortona; Canada's Epic WW2 Battle", Douglas & McIntyre, 1999.

Zuehlke, Mark; "Gothic Line; Canada's Month of Hell in WW2 Italy", Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.

Osprey Publication "Canadian Forces in WWII" by Rene Chartrand is small but has an excellent history of how Canada built up their forces from 8,000 regular Army and 60,000 Reserve forces to a force of 1,,079,451 out of a population of 11 Million. It includes a table that lists every Regiment and where they served or if disbanded.

In all, 368,000 Canadians served in Europe, 7,600 in the Pacific and a few thousand in Africa. Canadian casualties in NW Europe totaled 48,000 with 11,546 deaths.

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The role for the Canadian children in world war 2 was to keep rent and money coming home. While all the fathers and men of the house were at war, there was no body to farm or bring in money for the family. Kids would work long hours, and all the time, just to make ends meet.

Many Canadian children also helped by collecting scrap metal which was then brought to factories and used to make supplies for the war-front and the soldiers.

General Sir Julian Byng's entire Canadian corps of four divisions saw action during the Battle of the Somme. In all the Corps suffered over 24 000 casualties on the Somme, about 25 per cent of those were deaths. The Canadians held the line on the left flank of General Henry Rawlinson's British fourth army. On September 15th the Canadians attacked along the Albert-Bapaume Road and captured the town of Courcelette a heavily fortified strategically important German stronghold. Throughout the fall of 1916 the Canadians fought off repeated German counter attacks and conducted multiple attacks themselves. Before the battle was over, the Canadians took their primary objective: a deep system of fortified trenches the Canadians labeled the Regina Trench, and beyond, on November 18th, the Desire Trench. On November 19th, General Sir Authur Haig called off any further assaults and the Battle of the Somme ended. In addition to fighting in the four divisions of the Canadian Corps many Canadians fought in units of the British army and in the Royal Flying Corps actions over the Somme. Soldiers from Newfoundland and Labrador fought with the British in the opening attack on July 1st at Beaumont-Hammel. The Royal Newfoundland regiment took over 700 casualties from 800 troops involved in the opening attacks that morning.

Other than helping in ww2 nothing. Canada is a country full of scared people.

The Canadian military fought on the side of the United Nations during the Korean War. A total of 516 Canadian soldiers died during the conflict. Of that 516, 312 deaths were caused as a result of combat. After the war, Canadian forces remained in South Korea as advisors.

== == First the bare facts........... During World war Two, a total of 42,789 Canadian military personell were killed during their service. A further 97,988 were wounded, many of them loosing a limb, such as a arm or a leg, and some cases, they were multiple amputees, meaning that for the rest of their lives they would be disabled. You asked about battles. You have to realize that many men were killed in isolated places, in actions that were not really a battle in the conventional sense of that word. For example, if a fighter pilot, was shot down in a aerial combat with another enemy aircraft, he would be dead, but that does not really constitute a "battle" . The same applies to a man who was swept overboard, from a Canadian Navy ship, in the north Atlantic winter storms. He is dead, but not from enemy action. How about a trainee pilot who crashes a plane while learning to fly, in Canada. Did he die in a "battle" no , but he is still dead, just the same. About 4,000 men died in air craft crashes in Canada, while learning to fly, which was and is still a dangerous activity. Battles are either on land, on the sea, or in the air. They by their very nature involve lots of men, and lots of equipment, such as ships, aircraft and various kinds of weapons. In order to fight effectively, all of the men have to be trained and equipped, well before they go into a battle. It takes thousands of men to form a military force, and months of time to train them properly in their various tasks. They also need a large number of "support troops" who do things like manage supply of food and water and fuel, and cook the meals and do the administration jobs like keeping track of the payroll, and providing medical care. For every ONE soldier who actually faces the enemy, there are NINE others behind him in the support units, who supply him and his mates with all they need to fight with. Without support lines and supply troops, the army will collapse. You asked about battles. So I will give you the names, in chronological order, of SOME of the Canadian battles in WW2. The aerial battle of Britain, summer 1941. Bombing raids of Germany by the RCAF bomber group, flying from Yorkshire to German and French targets, 1941 thru to 1945. At sea, the Royal Canadian Navy provided escort ships to guard commercial ship convoys that brought important food and war materials to the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1945, during the LONGEST battle of the entire war, the Battle of The North Atlantic. Without those convoys, Britain would have starved to death in 1940. The German U-Boats were torppedoing many ships in the Atlantic, but the RCN was sinking a good number too, and we became the best anti-submarine force in the world by the end of the war inh 1945. On land, we we the main force in a raid on the coast of France to test the German defenses , and also the methods to use to achieve a amphibious landing on a defended beach. this took place in August, 1942, at Dieppe, France. It was a defeat for us, with many of the 5,000 Canadians being either killed of taken prisoner by the Germans. The death toll that day was over 900 killed, and only a small number of the troops got back on the ships and back to England. The prisoners would spend the next 4 years in German prisons. In 1942, we were part of the invasion force that landed in Sicily, and then went on to invade Italy. Italy was a partner with Germany in the Azis alliance. We fought hard all thru the summer fall and winter of 1943, to push the Germans and the Italians back up the country. There was heavy fighting at every river crossing, which the German army fortified strongly. It took weeks of fighting to advance only a few miles at a time, and lots of lives too. There are thousands of Canadians buried in Italy, never to come home again. That is the price that we as a country paid to defeat the evil that was the Nazis. By the summer of 1944, we had just about defeated the Germans in Italy, BUT they still held all most all of the rest of Europe, so it was important that we ( the Allies) get ashore in France, and start to drive the Germans back into their own country, and finally defeat them, once and for all. This resulted in the invasion of France, by the Allies ( Canada, Britain, and the USA ) on June 6th 1944. this was the largest military operation in the history of mankind. It was a huge effort that had been planned for 2 years, and it involved over 5,000 ships of all kinds, 4000 aircraft, and about 200,000 men in the first stages of the plan. There were 5 landing beaches, 2 for the USA, 2 for British troops, and one for Canadians. It was code named " JUNO beach" and it was about 12 miles, from end to end, and in the first 24 hours, about 20,000 Canadians went ashore, against tough German resistance, from concrete bunkers and hidden machine gun posts. The casualty numbers were high, with over 500 killed in that first day and more than 800 wounded. But the Canadians were the most aggressive, and the most successful soldiers that day, penetrating more than 12 miles inland, the farthest of any Allied group that day, June 6th ,1944. For the next 11 months, we fought thru France, into Belgium, into Holland, and finally into the heart of Germany, until they surrendered, unconditionally, on May 9th 1944. It was the most grueling and dirty part of the war, fighting in the cold and mud of the winter war in Holland, where the Germans had flooded the country by blowing the dykes that hold back the waters of the North Sea, so that we had to fight in 4 to 6 feet of water, everyday. It is no wonder that the Dutch people regard Canadians as their saviors, even today, 60 years later. We liberated them and they remember us fondly. As a Canadian soldier, in the 1980's, I could NOT spend my money in Holland, when I was there in my uniform. Nobody would take my money, they said I could have anything I wanted for FREE, as a thank you for what WE CANADIANS had done to free their country, long ago.

The French have won more wars throughout history than any other nation.

The Canadian Prime Minister was William Lyon MacKenzie King. He held seances to speak to his departed mother, and after Roosevelt died, he spoke to Roosevelt in seances to get advice on the war.

There were 1.1 million Canadian servicemen who had participated in the war. Canada's military deaths in the Second World War (which included 1,167 deaths from wounds received to the end of 1947) are recorded as 46,250 (including 1,656 Canadian merchant seamen) another 54,000 were wounded.

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