ANGLO-CANADIAN VICTORY ENDS 6-WEEK BATTLE FOR CAEN
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…