A Time to Mourn
 April 15,1945
 Burying the victims of the last U-boat attack on a RCN ship of WW 2.

 IMAGE - Funeral of a victim of the sinking of the minesweeper H.M.C.S. ESQUIMALT, which was torpedoed by the German submarine U-190 on 16 April 1945, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 1945. 
 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 Credit: Lt. Richard G. Arless 
 Source: Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-157149
taken from fb/history of WW2

A time to mourn

Canadian soldiers in a Landing Craft Assault (LCA) head for the beachhead from HMCS Prince Henry during the Allied D-Day landings (Operation Overlord) in Normandy. More than 14,000 Canadian troops stormed the 8 km (5.0 mi) stretch of beach between Graye-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months. Canadian soldiers of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade, which formed the Canadian assault force on Juno Beach suffered 1,074 casualties, including 369 killed on the beach and in the countryside on the first day of the invasion. Near Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France. 6 June 1944. 


On to Juno Beach

Soldier of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry with his Bren MkI gun near Valguarnera, Italy
taken from fb/Bren gun owners