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2 days ago · Operation Market Garden. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion ...
5 days ago · The First Special Service Force was a joint Canadian-American commando unit that was nicknamed the 'Devil's Brigade' by the German Army. ... and the 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) within ...
5 days ago · The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land ...
1 day ago · The official site of the Canadian Army seems to redirect to other websites (which I doubt is the way people used to sign up in the 1980s). I could probably make educated guesses on how people signed up (mail, journals, office, etc.) but google has been no help confirming or denying any of it (and also, I'm unsure on how to word the question).
1 day ago · On the official Government of Canada website it states, "The Canadian Armed Forces is structured to have 631 Regular Force members per 1 GOFO, which makes us lighter at the top when compared to like-sized military forces of some of our closest Commonwealth Allies. This is a classic example of, well to be blunt, horseshit.
3 days ago · On board the plane were 12 paratroopers with the 11th Airborne Division, five soldiers in a Counter-intelligence Detachment assigned to the paratroopers, 10 Japanese American linguists in the ...
2 days ago · The Canadian Forces Reorganization Act 1968 merged the Army, RCN, and RCAF into branches of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), with the three services ceasing to exist as separate entities. [319] Hellyer's efforts to unify Canada's military were partly successful, with support services and headquarters commands being successfully unified, and ...
