• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    The Canadians are who they’d send in when other armies couldn’t do it. Blizzard? The Canadians will charge the trenchs through 3 feet of snow and the blizzard would hide their advance. Swampy conditions? Half of Canada is a swamp and the Canadians would charge through the mud effortlessly in comparison. They fought when they wanted, how they wanted, and with no sympathy for the enemy.

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      Every war I’ve heard of since, people say “I wasn’t afraid of the British, I wasn’t afraid of the French, I wasn’t afraid of the US, but those godamn Canadian’s are ruthless.”

      I have a theory that it’s all of the sorey’s stacked up in a pent up rage

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        14 days ago

        It may be because the Canadians were well known in both wars for not taking prisoners. That’s not true in every engagement, of course, but in Normandy, after a number of Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner and then executed, their comrades would execute any Germans they captured.