Juno forgotten

However upset the British are about the lack of invitation of the Queen to the commemorations to the 65th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, this should be nothing as to how the Canadians should feel. They are the forgotten force of D-Day. The Canadian 2nd Infantry Division had been slaughtered at Dieppe just under 2 years before and there was an understandable concern that history would be repeated.

As it happened the attack by the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division upon Juno Beach was in its initial stages as bloody as that on Omaha with casualty rates of almost 50% and altogether there were about 1,000 killed and wounded over the day.

They seem to be well and truly forgotten - unrepresented at the commemorations in a way that makes the British seem as if they are shining in the spotlight.


Update

I see Prince Charles has been invited. As heir to the Canadian throne I hope he visits the Canadian beach