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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Fair enough.
I think that a couple of things kind of stand out to me.
First of all, when the Canadians' arrived in Britain they were viewed as poorly trained and embarrassingly equip and poorly lead. They were also viewed as basically rude boisterous barbarians.
the other problem to me is that they were viewed almost as British units, so people expected them to act like British units.
Also I go back to the fact that we had really inexperienced leadership, and we never took the going forward position that we should have with allied commanders.
I think it was poor utilization by our allies that caused the problems.
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Also, the post-war myth perpetuated by senior German officers about the tragic fall of the invincible Wehrmacht.