CANADIAN FIRST ARMY

Caen, Normandy, France • July 21, 1945 The capture of the historic Norman town of Caen, a city of 62,000, was a key objec­tive of Oper­a­tion Over­lord (June 6, 1944 to August 30, 1944), the start of the Allies’ liber­a­tion of German-occupied West­ern Europe. Over­lord’s plans called for the British Second Army and the Cana­dian…