Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
Algonquin Regiment ‘B’ Company leaving North Bay for Camp Borden, 1941 (Image: virtualmuseum.ca) and below an April 10, 1941 ad in the Huntsville Forester looking for men to fight in the war.
Huntsville Doppler is sharing these photos in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, on June 6, 1944, when an estimated 132,600 American, British, Canadian and other allied troops and 23,400 paratroopers stormed the coast of Normandy along five beaches to push back the enemy in what is referred to as one of the largest land and sea invasions in military history. While the invasion may have been key in helping win the war, according to the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation, it also resulted in the death of an estimated 4,415 allied military personnel.
About 75 million people died in World War 2, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died due to deliberate genocide during the Holocaust, bombing, disease, and starvation.
It was a “sacrificial road that led to V-E Day (May 8, 1945), and the return of democracy, freedom to much of Europe after six years of total war against the tyranny and evil of fascism,” as former Huntsville High School teacher Peter Kear recently noted in a comment on Huntsville Doppler.
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Allen Markle says
Imagine the bravery of men waiting for a ramp to drop away in front of them so they could wade ashore. To a shore that sparkled, hissed and roared with gunfire. To be the beginning of the effort to wrest Europe and the world from tyranny and despotism. From dictatorship. To win for us the rights and privileges we are so proud to claim today. I am humbled in the knowledge of their determination and for some, that ultimate sacrifice.
And almost on the anniversary date of such a sacrifice, we are apprised of there being among us, people who are wittingly or otherwise (?) working on behalf of foreign states. The National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians released a document stating it is so. I won’t agree with PC Pete very often, but when he calls for the names of these people, I agree. I know there is the possibility of mistakes being made, but why tell us this is happening without doing anything about it. We are supposed to be a nation of laws. Everyone will get their day.
I think there is provision to deal with treason. Maybe not so severe as the wall or a rope of bygone days, but these “rights” everyone clings to, have to be defended.
The men who fought and perished on June 6, 1944 preserved those rights. It is a lot easier for us today. Just the names. There’s no beach to storm.