Canadian Military History Volume 16 Issue 4 Article 2 2007 The Guns of Bretteville: 13th Field Regiment, RCA, and the defence of Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse, 7–10 June 1944 Marc Milner University of New Brunswick,
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[email protected]. Milner: The Guns of Bretteville The Guns of Bretteville 13th Field Regiment, RCA, and the defence of Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse, 7-10 June 1944 Marc Milner n the days immediately following the D-Day Third Canadian Division was allotted more Ilandings of 6 June 1944, Canadian and British than double its normal artillery for the beachhead forces withstood the primary attempt by the battles, a fact which says a great deal about Germans to crush the Allied invasion. Struck by a what the Allies believed was going to happen series of savage assaults by three Panzer divisions, west of Caen. In addition to its own divisional the British and Canadian divisions buckled but field regiments – 12th, 13th and 14th RCA – the did not break. The location and nature of these Canadians had three more field regiments and a attacks were anticipated by Overlord planners.