The Canadians in Normandy...

...are noticed in a Washington Post book review. Good:

Beyond Omaha Beach [D-Day: The Battle for Normandy in Canada and the UK]

By Jonathan Yardley
Sunday, October 11, 2009

D-DAY

The Battle for Normandy

By Antony Beevor

Viking. 592 pp. $32.95

...the figures for the first two weeks in Normandy are nothing if not sobering: American, British and Canadian casualties came to 5,287 killed, 23,079 wounded and 12,183 missing. I draw two conclusions from those statistics. The first is that although the Canadian role in the invasion of Normandy (or for that matter throughout the war in almost all theaters) is often minimized or even ignored, in Normandy it was large and important. Canadian troops were involved in many hard encounters and often acquitted themselves with great bravery. "The strength of the Canadians lay in the quality of their junior officers," Beevor writes, "many of whom were borrowed eagerly by a British Army short of manpower."..

More on the Canadians on D-Day and in Normandy, e.g. entering Caen:

Canadian troops of the 3rd Infantry Division entering Caen, Normandy, after heavy bombing by Allied aircrafts and artillery, 10 July 1944.
Photo by Harold G. Aikman. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-116510.