Bloody Buron D+1 - The Battle of Normandy 1944 - With Marc Milner

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  @NOTBOBROBERTS · 4 years ago

  After touring Normandy in 2013, I learned that my Aunt's Uncle was in A Company, North Shore New Brunswick Regiment and had been killed on Juno Beach. I was able to visit his grave, Cpl. Albert J. Savoy, in Normandy in 2019 and pay respects on behalf of the family. Very moving. Please keep up this great work you are doing.

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  @mitchellross8293 · 4 years ago

  I was in front of the Buron monument in June, 1977 with my grandfather Midge Cathcart, who was the RSM of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers under Radley Walters.  The reception the Canadiens received on that trip was something I'll never forget.

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  @whitby910 · 2 years ago

  Thank you all. Excellent.

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  @peterbuckley5804 · 2 years ago

  My father Hugh was in a  Stuart tank overlooking Carpiquet airport on June 7 from the ridge.  Their radios had failed,  their Squadron Commander had been brewed up and they were unsupported. Having seen the airport, they decided to retreat northward, driving out of the fields and onto the road at Franqueville. Your note about the SS counteroffensive,  helps to clarify that.  Once they were on the road they came upon a German 88 at Franqueville. Fortunately, the Germans had their gun pointing northward as the Stuarts came out of the wheat from behind.  The 88mm crew were taken out by the 37mm on the Stuart and that allowed them to get back to Buron. However,  it seems amazing they survived at all. Perhaps the height of the wheat in 1944 was a contributing factor.  The book Green Fields Beyond, is the authoritative book, and recently written by Daniel M. Braun, about the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, if that helps your own research.

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  @ToddSauve · 5 years ago (edited)

  Apparently the official historian for the Canadian army in Europe was a Colonel Stacey and he <i>never once</i> even set foot on the mainland and wrote his entire history only from regimental reports while safely ensconced in Britain. It is surprising that no one has dismantled his accounting long before Marc Milner did!<br><br>Thanks for this episode Paul! 😉

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  @paulmcewen7384 · 1 year ago

  If you are Canadian, Stopping the Panzers is the single most important military history book you can read. It provides great context to our tiny nation&apos;s relationship to the United States, and it&apos;s more important now then ever.

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  @markmorgan6179 · 4 years ago

  Another &nbsp;fascinating show. Thank you!

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  @Akulahistory · 2 years ago

  Awesome, my company is called Buron Company to honour that battle which my unit took part in

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  @philbosworth3789 · 3 years ago

  A great presentation by Marc. &nbsp;This is the second time I&apos;ve watched it, now I have some more knowledge of the Canadians in Normandy (Thanks to @WW2TV). &nbsp;Marc has obviously spent quite some time there judging by his local geographical knowledge. &nbsp;Mags did a great job with the video, again.

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  @mikesmeets4418 · 5 years ago

  I bought Marc&apos;s book &quot;Stopping the Panzers&apos; today - and hope I can visit the actual spots again this year. Thanks for the show.

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  @deruntergang112 · 5 years ago

  Another educational show.<br>keep it up!

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  @billballbuster7186 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Many years ago I wrote an article on the 17 Pounder for Airfix Magazine. A few weeks later a veteran gunner from the 62nd Anti-Tank Regiment RA, I Corps, at Buron wrote me. It included a newspaper article dated from 1944 claiming their Achilles MkIIC had taken out 15 German tanks from 12th SS Panzer. One of the vehicle commanders was getting a meddle for his part of the battle. &nbsp;Its great after all these years to see a full account of the battle. Thank You.

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