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Canadians vs the SS at Carpiquet Airport - Operation Windsor, July 1944, Normandy
With Brad St.Croix
Part of our DDay and Battle of Normandy series
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Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
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Operation Windsor was conducted in early July 1944 to capture Carpiquet village and airfield, both originally D-Day objectives that had not been achieved. Carpiquet stood between the Canadian and British units and Caen. Major General Rod Keller turned the planning over to Brigadier K.G. Blackader commander of the 8th Canadian infantry brigade (Queens’ Own Rifles of Canada, Le Régiment de la Chaudière and the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment). The 8th would be reinforced with an attached battalion (the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) and the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. (Fort Garry Horse, Sherbrooke Fusiliers, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, elements of 79th Armoured Division). The plan was for a set-piece battle. The infantry would advance behind a creeping barrage, supported by tanks on both flanks. In the air, two squadrons of Hawker Typhoons would provide tactical air support. The German units included: I Battalion, Panzer-grenadier Regiment 26 of the 12th SS, and tanks of the 1st SS-Panzer Division (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler), which counter-attacked on 5 July.
Outside the Box: A New Perspective on Operation Windsor-The Rationale Behind the Attack on Carpiquet, 4 July 1944 by David Patterson
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Dr Brad St.Croix, has a PhD in history, and is best known for creating many types of videos about military history with a strong emphasis on Canadian military history on his channel
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His last WW2TV appearances:
The First Special Service Force on the Anzio Beachhead
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The Royal Canadian Regiment in Italy - September 1943, Side-stepping South of Salerno
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Recommended viewing prior to this show:
Bloody Buron D+1 - The Battle of Normandy 1944 - With Marc Milner
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