Hong Kong Failure

The Dieppe raid was a devastating failure in terms of success of objectives. Hundreds of Canadians lost their lives, landing crafts were destroyed, tanks were deserted during the evacuation, and very few objectives were met. Despite being renowned as a disastrous event, allied commanders gained invaluable knowledge for a full scale continental invasion and this knowledge was applied to the planning of D-day two years later. Behind the failure of Dieppe laid a poor plan, insufficient support from aircraft and artillery, and deplorable communication. The lessons learned and the knowledge gained from the Canadian raid at Dieppe in 1942 were essential to the success of the invasion at Normandy in 1944.

In World War I, the victory of the Allies was caused by the turning point of a stalemate on the Western Front of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. It was “the Canadians willingness to forgo nationalism in the interests of efficiency and effectiveness that marked a new” (Dickson 40) transition of the ending of war. Through the second battle of Ypres, the Battle of Aras, and observing the previous bloodbath at the Battle of The Somme, the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F) perfected their defense tactics and techniques to fight in the evolutionary battle that made Canada a nation.

the main assault force, C.O.H.Q called upon the services of the 2nd Canadian Division, under the

     Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Curries was not pleased at the prospect of going to Passchendaele. Currie, like many Canadian soldiers, had grim memories of the Ypres salient, and grim memories to he Ypres salient, and admitted that his “experience in the salient in 1915 and in 1916 were such that I never wanted to see the place again.” Unfortunately, on 3 October, Currie was warned that the Corps might be sent north, to take part in the offensive in Flanders. Currie could make no sense of Passchendaele, and he was furious. “Passchendaele!” he raged in front of his staff. “What’s the good of it? Let the Germans have it--keep it--rot in it! Rot in the mud! There’s a mistake somewhere. it must be a mistake! It isn’t worth a drop of blood.” Although Currie was not at all happy that the Canadians had been told to take Passchendaele. One of Currie’s first moves was to assign intelligence officers to the various headquarters with which the Canadian Corps would be associated: Second Army, II Anzac Corps, which was responsible for the sector the Canadians would be taking over, and its front-line divisions, the New Zealand and 3rd Australian. These officers, and the general staff were to acquire

Poor organization among troops, appalling war conditions Canadians endured and lack of effective leadership that did not support the best interests of Canadian troops all contributed to the pointless suffering Canadians endured in this supposed glamorous adventure. In the beginning, the poor organization among the troops resulted in some of the mishaps that occurred in battle. In

The German troops were fighting fearlessly on the east end of Europe, ready to take over Russia, but once the Allied forces show up in Sicily at the demand of the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. The German’s attention is diverted away from Russia and taking over the Eastern Front to saving their precious Italian land which served as a strategic location for the Axis. The Germans had tried to save Italy since it was their captured land and also territory of the Axis powers. But when Canada came into play, the Germans found themselves in a tough situation where they had to use only their utmost intelligent troops in order to fight back against the support that the Allies received from Canada. Canada’s newest technology and warfare strategies changed

(a) What, according to Source A, were the problems Germans had faced by the Canadian Army operating the artillery?

In addition to the resupply of troops, insufficient and ineffective use of transportation resources diminished British effectiveness on the battlefield. Due to poor planning and negligent communication between commanders, the various transport agencies utilized to resupply the British army struggled with prioritizing missions and did not effectively communicate with each other. In addition, independent decisions were made to keep units on-station to move troops vice sending back to resupply. Misaligned campaign plans and the lack of communication and collaboration among commanders

On April 9th to 12th, 1917, the Canadian infantry was sent to seize Vimy Ridge, an advantageous area heavily protected by the Germans. They did not disappoint. Following the French’s failed attempt to capture this land, sustaining over 100,000

But as the British and Hessian forces would soon find out, “these harassing tactics were difficult to endure, but having to live in poor accommodations in a cold, damp foreign land” made in virtually impossible to remain disciplined to fight within their ranks, as loss of men and loss of morale declined drastically because of harsh weather conditions . The British may indeed have had the advantage when it came to numbers of soldiers, discipline in training, well-educated and experienced officers and soldiers, and many supplemental soldiers, such as the Hessian forces compared to the American army, but they failed to calculate in other factors for which they failed to recognize. Their demise and downfall in the war was not calculating in their strategic plans that they were in a foreign land, far away from their homeland, away from easily accessible supplies, resources, and replacement soldiers. Without these necessities in a well-designed, the British forces destined themselves to fail at winning the

That said, they had ten times the number of tanks, and like Stalin said “Quantity is a quality all itself”. (Russ,2011) There were three major things that went wrong for Canadians in the battle. The first was it started raining cancelling out any chance of air support and turning everything into mud, furthermore the Germans broke the dams and flooded the fields making it incredibly difficult to move and utilize tanks. Another thing that went wrong was that the Germans were able to make tank traps and killzones to obliterate large numbers of tanks and troops. Some of the tank traps included trenches that tanks couldn’t cross which consequently made them go down small narrow paths, then anti- tank guns fired from a distance and took out the first and last tank in the line, all the rest were sitting ducks waiting for their demise.*VIDEO INFO*. The Germans of the Rhineland battles fought much harder against all other forces as they had their backs against their countries borders and most fought with the sentimentality of “ I’d rather die and take as many of them as I can then become a prisoner.” this caused for tricks like pretending to surrender then machine gunning the Canadians who came out of cover. Throughout all of the Rhineland campaign 40,000 Germans lay died and 230,000 were taken prisoner.(No Author,2011) Once it was all said and done this battle had become the most ravaging battle on Canadians and for the soldiers it was more of a “Thank God it’s over” than a “we won!!”. This battle impacted Canadians greatly because it was the homestretch into Germany and although we had the weather, the terrain,superior tanks,incredibly hostile German troops and trap after agonizing trap, we still won. Therefore this showed how the Middle power Canadian troops could compete with the Superpowers and claim victory with so much stacked against them, and so many

During the First Great World War, Canada’s overseas military increased to four infantry divisions with over 80,000 fighting men, and gained great fighting prowess during this Great War. Canada’s military involvement and contribution during WWI could be acknowledged from simple fact that Canada lost 60,000 soldiers in various battlefronts during the First World War.

This whole battalion was at a disadvantage before they left the states, given the mission

The Canadian troops are, of course, not the only ones involved in the conflicts around which these books centre. At a very early stage in the novel, McDougall presents us with an American. The way in which this southern neighbour is introduced to the story, a paratrooper who has missed his mark, may be a subtle poke at American incompetence in general (McDougall, 4). The Americans that Harrison brings in near the end of his story are obnoxious and bound to summon their own doom (Harrison, 237). The British military is vastly lacking in McDougall’s story, though perhaps represented in the Scots company within the Canadian ranks. When the odd British soldier appears, it is generally as messenger and not as commander. Generals has swarms of Brits throughout the novel, generally in command positions. The bitterness felt by Canadian soldiers toward their British officers in the trenches of the First World War becomes clearly invoked in the where Fry

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