Le Regiment de la Chaudiere was the only infantry reg. on D-Day I thought....could be wrong though.
I've read that they could communicate fairly easily with the French population because the Normandy dialect of French was similar to Quebecs.
From "Holding Juno" Mark Zuehlke....GO BUY IT!
A little setup...approx. a Company of Panzer Grenadiers aboard more than 20 vehicles just attacked "A" company of the Chaudieres.....9 platoon was over run and 41 prisoners were taken.
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The remaining two platoons of "A" Company and two of the battalion's six-pound antitank gun crews were quickly entangled in a fierce melee with the attacking Germans. "My men were exhausted but they fought like lions." Major Hugues Lapionte wrote later of his company's desperate fight. "There was no defensive line as such, our being entirely surrounded. There followed close-combat action with gernades and point-blank firing of weapons. POWS occurred on both sides. Four half-tracks were knocked out and were aflame, their ammunition exploding and whizzing over our heads. It was like daylight as the vehicles burned!"
The bravery of one antitank gunner ultimately prevented "A" Company's slaughter. One of the six pounders had been knocked out of action in the opening minutes of the German attack and soon all but a single crew member manning the second six pounder were dead or wounded. The lone survivor, Private L.V. Roy, continued to load and fire the gun single-handed with deadly effect even as the Germans subjected his position to withering small arms fire. Virtually every well aimed shot from Roy's gun sent another half-track up in flames until finally the attack crumbled. When the Germans withdrew, 17 destroyed vehicles remained scattered throughtout "A" Company's position along with an undertermined number of dead Germans. The Chaudieres had been equally battered, due primarily to the capture of most of No. 9 Platoon and the death of Lieutenant Ladas and two of his men, along with the losses suffered by the antitank gunners.
Not until dawn, however, did other Chaudieres check Roy's gun position. The privates lifeless body was found draped over the breech of the gun he had served so bravely.
A brave man regardless of where he was from.
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