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[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

The Canadians are who they'd send in when other armies couldn't do it. Blizzard? The Canadians will charge the trenchs through 3 feet of snow and the blizzard would hide their advance. Swampy conditions? Half of Canada is a swamp and the Canadians would charge through the mud effortlessly in comparison. They fought when they wanted, how they wanted, and with no sympathy for the enemy.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Swampy conditions?

Send in the Manitobans.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

Every war I've heard of since, people say "I wasn't afraid of the British, I wasn't afraid of the French, I wasn't afraid of the US, but those godamn Canadian's are ruthless."

I have a theory that it's all of the sorey's stacked up in a pent up rage

[-] gramie@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

It may be because the Canadians were well known in both wars for not taking prisoners. That's not true in every engagement, of course, but in Normandy, after a number of Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner and then executed, their comrades would execute any Germans they captured.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

We just pretend it's a moose and pull the trigger.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Lmfao that will work too

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