OTD 3rd Canadian Infantry Division is only 14km's from the Beach on this day 76 years ago. The landings have been successful, but the fight inland is anything but concluded. The mission of the Division now shifts to its most important task: stopping the Panzers.
On the 8th and 9th of June that is exactly what the Regina Rifles did. Building a Battalion Fortress based on the town of Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse.

This is going to be a map thread, talking about some of the best stuff we have and why they are important. Most of these come from a war diary or an official history. They are like tapestries, telling the story of battles gone by.

So read along First off, why do we love maps? Simple. They show WHERE things were happening. Books and war diaries often tell you the what and the when, and probably even the why, maybe even the how.

But a map puts that all in a visual perspective.

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We would like to thank Project’44 contributor Federico Peyrani for his work on mapping and translating the source war dairies. /contd These regiments in their Panzer IV’s and Panthers would be a constant foe of Anglo-Canadian troops in the area in and around Caen and are key to giving context to the fanatical resistance 1stSSPzrCorps created in trying to contain the allied breakout from the beaches of Normandy.