Carrier Assault?

[John McGillivray]

The more I read about what the Canadian troops did during the two World Wars, the more blown away I become. My daughter is a student at McGill, so I have been getting her to take out books from the University Library for me. That is were I found the Regimental Histories of 2 Cdn HAA, 7th Recce etc. Books like these contain a lot more detail then that you would usually find in the histories on most book store selves.

An example of this is the counterattack by the Canadian Scottish at Putot on 8th June. The Canadian Scottish Companies were widely dispersed before they were sent to Putot. One company was in Vieux Cairon and was engaged in a fire fight with troops from the 25th SS Pz Gn Regt. They had to disengage from Vieux Cairon, make a forced march at quick time of about 10km with full combat order to get to Putot, when go directly into the attack against German troops of the 26th SS Pz Gn Regt. After they retook Putot, they had to consolidate their positions and repel two or three counterattacks by the 12th SS. These Canadians were not inferior troops!

Here is the link to the McGill Library.

http://aleph.mcgill.ca/F/?func=file%26file_name=start-1

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