One of the things to also remember was that after the Canadians gained Juno beach and pushed in they encountered Kurt Meyer who commanded a Division in the Hitlerjugend. The Canadians destroyed 30 of his tanks and blunted a SS counter attack.
On June 7th 11 Canadian Prisoners of War from the Nova Scotia Highlanders and Sherbrook Fusiler were shot in the back of the head in what became known as the Ardene Abbey Massacre
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
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