Only Death Could Land The Canadian Attack On Carpiquet July 1944

 

The ultimate objective of the Third Canadian Infantry Division for D-Day was the area to the west of the city of Caen. Specifically, the Canadians sought to attain the area just north of the Caen-Bayeuex highway, the village of Carpiquet and the adjacent airfield. Caen was the logistical and administrative keystone to the Normandy region. As long as the Germans held the city the allied breakout from the beachheads would be delayed. Lying to the west of the city, Carpiquet was directly in the path of the Canadians seeking to assist in the planned encirclement of Caen. As it turned out, Carpiquet and Caen would remain in German hands for more than a month after the D-Day landings. Not until the first week of July would Carpiquet village be captured. The airfield itself would not completely fall to the Canadians until after Caen fell.

 

John Gilbert

Softcover 159pp Gargunnock Books 2006 1st Ed

 

Fine

Book Code:  SH2990