The New Highlanders

After landing at Juno and dashing for its objective of Carpiquet Airfield, 3rd Canadian Division met the counterattack of 12th SS "Hitlerjugend" Panzer Division northwest of Caen. Aided by observation from a nearby abbey tower, the SS caught the advancing …

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After landing at Juno and dashing for its objective of Carpiquet Airfield, 3rd Canadian Division met the counterattack of 12th SS "Hitlerjugend" Panzer Division northwest of Caen. Aided by observation from a nearby abbey tower, the SS caught the advancing Allied armor in the flank between the outskirt villages of Buron and Authie. North Nova Scotia Highland infantry of Captain Hank Fraser's C Company with machine gunners of the Ottawa Cameron Highlanders had made Authie but had outrun artillery support. Fraser sent his carriers rearward as the first wave of 18 year old panzergrenadiers came on to throw the Canadians back into the sea. The vicious close quarters fight that ensued amid smoke and German shellfire inaugurated a bitter rivalry between the two divisions.

Authie, France

Operation Perch was a British offensive of the Second World War which took place from 7 to 14 June 1944, during the early stages of the Battle of Normandy. The operation was intended to encircle and seize the German occupied city of Caen, which was a D-Day objective for the British 3rd Infantry Division in the early phases of Operation Overlord. Operation Perch was to begin immediately after the British beach landings with an advance to the south-east of Caen by XXX Corps. Three days after the invasion the city was still in German hands and the operation was amended. The operation was expanded to include I Corps for a pincer attack on Caen.

Wikipedia: Operation Perch

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