Updated for D-Day anniversary

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http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/first-canadians-in-france-5-june-1944/

Probably will have to pick up some Foundry Paras to go along with this, now that I have seen this article.

[Suetonius Paullinus]

Please do 

The Canadian contribution to the air assault has always been a bit overshadowed by the events around Pegasus Bridge but was certainly equally important and therefore well worth of our remembrance!

Cheers

SP

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http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/d-day-70-years-ago-today/

Lest we forget

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Please do 

The Canadian contribution to the air assault has always been a bit overshadowed by the events around Pegasus Bridge but was certainly equally important and therefore well worth of our remembrance!

Cheers

SP

They are in my cart! I just can't pull the trigger, yet ...

I have some commissions that I am waiting payment on. Once that happens ... yes, Foundry Paras for D-Day.
There is an excellent Canadian production called Juno Beach, it was a made-for-tv movie, the DVD is very inexpensive to buy; some of the best scenes in the movie are of the Canadian Paras. It mostly describes this action:

The majority of 'C' Company was dropped west of the Dives river and only 33 of the 110 men who jumped made it to the Varaville area. Despite the losses one group of paratroopers quickly destroyed the road bridge over the Divette, a tributary of the river Dives. The remaining men, under the command of Major Murray MacLeod attacked a chateau in Varaville where a German pillbox and 75mm anti-tank gun covered the Varaville road. The Canadians came under heavy fire. Shell fire from the 75mm killed five men including Major MacLeod. The remaining men dug in around the town shooting it out with the Germans.

from http://www.members.shaw.ca/junobeach/juno-4-13.htm