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It was a mystery to me why the Canadians and British were advancing so hesitantly. Their enormous tank superiority was hardly fulfilling its potential. Instead of pushing their tank formations quickly and deeply into our defences and creating a bridgehead over the Orne, they were only using tanks to support their infantry operations. With the exception of the extremely agile and well-led artillery, the attacker lacked momentum and initiative on the battlefield and was conducting the assault on Caen along tactical principles employed in World War I.

- Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Kurt "Panzer" Meyer, Commander, 12th SS Panzer Div "Hitlerjugend

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2IC

Second in command

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Today in Military History

April 9

1869:

Le Regiment de la Chaudiere: Aere Prennius (Truer than steel)

1869:

Les Fusiliers du Saint-Laurant: J'y Suis En Garde (I am on guard)

1917:

ARRAS, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 4 May 17)

1917:

VC won by Capt Thain Wendell MacDowell, 38th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France

1917:

VC won by L/Sgt Ellis Wellwood Sifton, 18th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)

1917:

VC won by Pte William Johnstone Milne, 16th Battalion, CEF, Vimy Ridge, France (posthumous)

1917:

VIMY, 1917, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 14 Apr 17)

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