A Canadian Military Policeman directs vehicular traffic during Operation Totalize.
Operation Totalize was an offensive launched by the First Canadian Army from 8 to 13 August 1944. The intention was to break through the German defenses south of Caen in Normandy, France and drive on to capture the high ground north of the city of Falaise.

Canadian MP on duty

Canadian soldiers displaying a large German flag, removed from a fortified house in the heavily destroyed commune of Xanten, Germany, about 10 miles east from the Dutch border; March 9, 1945.
The day before, on March 8, 1945, after heavy fighting, Xanten was taken by Canadian troops. The Canadian military lost, according to their own data, 400 soldiers in the fight against the defending Fallschirmjäger (German paratroops).

War trophy for victors

An unidentified Canadian soldier, who is armed with a Thompson submachine gun, escorting a German prisoner in England, who was captured during Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid in France.  19 August 1942.