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All y'alls r tres tres tres funny. Dictionary, good point, i'm sure i won't understand common english considering i go to a private skewl-SJR, have a 93% average, got in the 97th percentile on my SAT's (for those of u who don't know thats the aptitude test for american colleges), and if you want a sample of my riting, i'd b happy to email it to ya. Oh, and btw, einsteins iq happened to b 200+, they weren't even sure. I didn't get it measured online, got it measured @ skewl. And i type this way, bc thats the quickest way to get sumthin said on the net. U guys just gotta learn to adapt to this century. I wuz just using iq to demonstrate that i mite actually b slightly intelligent, basically i wuz wondering if high intelligence is an asset or not. I mean, i'm just tryin 2 get help, not get scoffed at by a bunch of probable dumasses. Heres a sample of my writing: Its the essay i wrote regarding the canadian special forces in world war two topic i had asked questions about. I actually won a canadian history contest award of 500$ for it
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the â Å“Desert Foxâ ? once said, â Å“Give me American supply lines, British planes, German officers and Canadian troops, I could take over the world.â ? The Canadians earned a reputation in World War One as being the best shock troops in the world. Their role in the conflicts of Vimy Ridge, Yprès, and the capture of Amiens starting the â Å“Last 100 days of the Warâ ? demonstrated their unique fighting abilities. Canadian troops not only were the finest Allied soldiers in World War Two, they also raised two special units, the First Special Service Force (the â Å“Black Devil's Brigadeâ ?), and the First Canadian Parachute Battalion. These units are the founders of today's Special Operations Forces. Canadian troops were considered to be valorous, honourable, and superior in their operations, from Dieppe, to the Mediterranean, Normandy, Holland, and Northern Germany. In World War Two, the Canadian Infantry played a vital role as assault, shock, and crack troops through their training as light infantry and special forces soldiers, and they were a major contributor to the final defeat of the Nazis.
Pre-War Canada was very unprepared to fight any conflict. Its army (only three regular regiments, and 43 militia regiments) was not only small, but extremely ill-equipped. For example, it had only 16 light tanks, four anti-aircraft guns, ten Bren light machine guns, and two antitank guns for the entire army. Thankfully, the Canadians had very well trained officers who were resourceful, and brilliant in their methods of not only modernizing the Canadian army, but training it to become the best trained Allied army of World War Two. By D-Day, the 1st Canadian Army had 250 000 men. The Canadian infantry (the Canadian 1st Army) arrived in England in December of 1939 under the command of Lieutenant-General McNaughton. Training in England was rigorous and intense. It included simulated assault landings on beaches in England, Wales, and Scotland, hours on obstacle courses, forced marches in loose beach sand while wearing full packs. Troops were ordered to awake at 0330 hours, and were placed in small landing craft. They were then transported to destroyers or other cargo ships and, in 15-foot seas, clambered up and down cargo nets with full packs to simulate loading onto the landing craft for amphibious assault. Small-arms training and battlefield first aid was held throughout each day.
The 1st Special Service Force was created on July 20th, 1942. This was a unique joint formation of elite Canadian troops and Americans which was originally supposed to include England, but England decided to put its elite troops with the Special Air Service instead. The 1SSF was designed for sabotage and for use in commando operations. Members were all handpicked volunteers, and the Force's training base was in Helena, Montana. To eliminate any organizational problems among the troops, Canadians adopted American uniforms and ranks. The training of the â Å“Devil's Brigadeâ ? was an intensive three phase program, with extensive physical training for the duration. The first phase included parachute training, small unit tactics and weapons handling - all officers and ranks were required to master the full range of infantry weapons from pistols and carbines to bazookas and flame throwers. The second phase was explosives handling and demolition techniques. The third and final phase involved skiing, rock climbing, adaptation to cold weather, and operation of the Weasel combat vehicle (a troop transport vehicle intended for winter warfare) . The brigade's first deployment was to the Aleutian island of Kiska, but this mission was disappointing to the troops when it was found that the Japanese forces expected there had already evacuated. The first real battle was in the Italian Campaign. It was at two mountains - Monte La Difensa and Monte Camino - that German troops had established a stronghold. Any attempts to destroy this fortress had led to complete failures and numerous casualties for the American 5th Army. Thus, the First Special Service Force was called in. The first regiment scaled an extremely high cliff by night to surprise the enemy. Originally planned as a three to four day assault, the battle was won in just two hours. The force remained for 3 days, packing in supplies for defensive positions and fighting frostbite, then moved on to the second mountain, which was soon captured as well. At the conclusion, 1SSF suffered 511 casualties including 73 dead and 116 cases of exhaustion and stress. The commander, Col. Robert Frederick, was wounded twice in this battle. Unfortunately, the Special Service Force was often misused as line troops through their various battles in the Italian Campaign. Special Forces are not intended to serve as regular infantrymen, as they have vastly different tactics. Regular infantry are taught to always attack and especially attack head-on. Special Forces, on the other hand, are instructed to try to avoid this type of fighting, and instead to fight in a guerrilla warfare style. The Devil's Brigade battle honours include: Monte Camino, Monte La Difensa, Monte La Remetanea, Monte Majo, Anzio, Rome, Advance to the Tiber, Italy 1943 - 44, Southern France and Northwest Europe. They were also the first Allied unit into Rome. The First Special Service Force was finally disbanded on December Fifth, 1944, in Southern France.
The patch of the 1SSF was a red arrowhead with the words CANADA and USA. They even had a specially designed fighting knife designed for them, titled the V-42. The first scheduled operation was code named "Project Plough." The mission to parachute into German-held Norway and knock out strategic installations such as hydroelectric power plants. This operation had to be abandoned however. During Operation Shingle at Anzio, Italy, 1944, the Special Force were brought ashore to replace the decimated U.S. Army Rangers (elite troopers themselves), and to hold and raid from the right-side flank of the beachhead which was by the Mussolini Canal and Pontine Marshes. To the astonishment of the commanding officers at the beachhead, the 1SSF fought extremely effectively, wiping out all German opposition. It was here at Anzio that the 1st Special Force received its nickname. A diary of a dead German soldier contained a passage that said, "The black devils (Die schwarze Teufeln) are all around us every time we come into the line." The soldier was referring to them as "black" because the brigade's members smeared their faces with black boot polish for their covert operations in the dark of the night. In fact, throughout the entire war, the Black Devils never failed to achieve their objective. Today, modern North American Special Forces (the American Navy Seals and Green Berets, and Canada's own JTF2) were created and modeled after this elite force. To commemorate the brigade, a highway between Lethbridge Alberta, and Helena, Montana has been named the First Special Service Force Memorial Highway. Overall, it is estimated 12,000 enemy soldiers were killed and over 7,000 prisoners were captured by the â Å“Black Devil's Brigadeâ ? during the campaigns in Italy and France.
The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was created on July 1, 1942 by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Ralson, with the orders to protect Canada in the event of an enemy troop landing. At the start of the war, it was feared that the Germans might attempt to land a small force of highly trained soldiers in Canada so as to reduce the Canadian war participation. Therefore, it was decided that a highly mobile unit that was versatile, aggressive, and self-sustaining (relatively) so as to effectively and quickly react to a German landing. The obvious, and ideal choice would be an airborne force, as â Å“parasâ ? are able to deploy quickly, and survive on their own very well. The 1st Canadian Airborne was the original airborne unit of Canada. Eventually, with the threat of a German invasion slowly diminishing, the operational role of the Airborne Battalion was changed so as to allow this unit to serve overseas.
In England, the Battalion was commanded by an Englishman, Brigadier General James Hill, a charismatic, yet war-hardened young officer (he was only 31 years of age at the formation of the unit) from a military family. He found that paratroops were â Å“ a much more effective bunch of soldiers than regular infantry...They proved magnificent fighting material provided they were kept on a tight reign and well disciplinedâ ?. The Canadian unit was made up of volunteers from infantry regiments only. In addition to being under 6'3â ?, all of the troops must have undergone basic training and the soldier qualification course prior to enlistment with the battalion. The training of the 1st Airborne was very intense. In North America, it involved four months of training at Fort Benning, Georgia. The first month was devoted solely to physical training, with an intensive 15 minute sprint to the top of a nearby hill and back as the final test(more than 50% of the applicants failed out at this point) . The second month involved basic ground training and some infantry tactics, and then Low Level Tower training, in preparation for actually parachuting out of planes. The third month involved all the prior procedures expanded, and added High Level Tower training (a fast descent from a 250 foot tower). The last month involved all training and added the actual Parachute Qualification (five completed parachute descents) The Battalion was then sent to Shiloh, Manitoba for additional Parachute Training. Finally, they were sent to England to learn the more realistic and intense components of warfare. These were dangerously realistic exercises to learn demolition and fieldcraft in overcoming obstacles such as barbed wire, bridges and pillboxes. For the final tests, the recruits were sent against their training officers in a live fire exercise. The â Å“paraâ ? was considered to be part-airman, part commando and part engineer. The 1st Canadian Airborne battalion was part of the massive airborne invasion on D-Day minus one (June 5th, 1944), with the orders, â Å“"The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was to land one hour in advance of the rest of the brigade in order to secure the dropping zone (DZ) and capture the enemy headquarters known to be located on the DZ. Thereafter there are to destroy road bridges over the River Dives and its tributaries at Varaville, then neutralize the strong points on the cross roads." "In addition the Canadians were to protect the left (southern) flank of the 9th Battalion during that battalion's attack on the Meriville Battery, and then seize and hold a position astride the Le Mesnil cross roads, a vital strategic position at the centre of the ridge." Their next operation involved a short stint in Belgium and the Netherlands as reinforcements, the airborne crossing of the Rhine and the final advance to Wismar, Germany. In fact, some recon members from the unit were the first people into Hitler's â Å“Fortress Europeâ ?, landing a full 3.5 hours ahead of the main group of paratroops. Paratroops are effective, because they can be placed behind enemy lines, and have an ability to deploy almost anywhere with very little warning. Today's two American Airborne Divisions, the 82nd and the 101st can deploy anywhere in the world within 72 hours. The U.S. Army Rangers are trained to capture any airport on Earth in 24 hours. The size of an airborne assault is limited only by the number of aircraft available. So, given enough capacity, a huge force can develop in a matter of minutes. This action is referred to as vertical envelopment - a technique practiced in the D-Day landing, and OPERATION Market Garden.
In World War Two, it was difficult to even dissociate between the regular and militia Canadian troops, and the â Å“eliteâ ? special forces (1SSF, and the 1sCPB). It is generally agreed that Canadian troops were the best-trained and most effective Allied infantry units of World War 2. Many would ask the question, why were Canadians so much better, or different than American or British troops? The answer is a complex one with a variety of reasons. First, the Canadian troops were the first and only Allied troops in England from 1939 to 1942 besides a small number of British troops. Therefore, they were able to go through the best, and most intensive training of all troops in World War Two, as the British drill instructors in England, especially from Sandhurst and in Scotland at Achnacarry, were very fine. Canadian troops prepared and trained for D-Day for well over three years, compared to the year or less for the Americans. Canadian officers were also very capable and creative in their training techniques, a quality that was lacking in many of the other Allied units. Canadian officers adapted their methods, and developed new ones when approaching the tactics of this completely different style of warfare developed in World War Two. Another reason may lie within the general Canadian spirit, their esprit du corps. The stereotypical Englishman is an arrogant, yet noble fellow; the American is greedy, rough, and dogged. The Canadian was the best of both worlds. Canadians in the time of World War Two maintained the cheerful British quality, and the strong feeling of patriotism towards England. Canadian schoolchildren had been taught that their duty lay with England, thus the Canadians were able to adapt to the British way of life much better than the Americans. Canadians, especially from the prairies, as well took the American steadfastness, drive, and general physical condition. Also, all of the Canadian infantrymen were volunteers (notwithstanding a brief period of conscription in 1944). The difference between the morale and enthusiasm of a conscripted man, and a volunteer is immense. Canadian soldiers always seemed to operate well, even against the toughest of objectives. Although the Dieppe raid was a disaster for the Canadians (though a strategic success), no other army in the world could have done as well under the same conditions . The Regina Rifles were able to break through their section of the beach, and the Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg did complete some of their objectives. The Germans held the Canadians in such high regard that they always transferred their best units to fight against the Canadians. On D-Day and in the months to come, the Germans sent the 12 S.S. Division (Hitler Jugend) against the Canadians. In Sicily, the Germans sent the Herman Goering Division to fight the Canadians . Even against these extremely well-trained divisions the Canadians fared well and pushed forward further than all others. In fact, the Canadians fought so fiercely against the 12 S.S that this division was completely destroyed in Normandy. The Canadians were employed as the shock troops in virtually all the important offence manouveres in the Normandy Campaign, and were the troops who successfully allowed the closing of the Trun/Falaise gap, thus ending the Normandy campaign and capturing thousands of Germans.
Canada's infantry-it's regulars, militia, paratroops, and special service force, were very well utilized as light infantry and commandos in the fight against the Third Reich, and were important to the final victory of World War Two. The Canadian level of training, and their esprit du corps led to great victories for the Allied cause. The Canadians were regarded with great respect amoung the Germans, and the Germans sent their very best soldiers against the Canadians. Whether it was due to overpowering air and artillery support, or just plain tenaciousness of the Canadian infantry, - the people diving in the mud, and fiercely fighting the â Å“Hunâ ? with rifles, machine guns, grenades, bazookas, bayonets, and even fists - it is a fact that the Canadians were men who accomplished their missions with great honour and distinction. David Lloyd George, a great British statesman, once said, â Å“Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.â ? Indeed, the Canadians were the best of the best!
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Phil
