Soldiers, sailors in addition to airmen from Canada played a crucial job inward the Allied invasion of Normandy inward June 1944. Over 5,000 Canadian soldiers gave their lives during the Battle of Normandy in addition to in that place were over 18,700 Canadian casualties during the campaign.
Project '44 is an interactive map which visualizes the Allied advance in addition to the Canadian contribution to the D-Day landings in addition to subsequent province campaign. The map provides an animated chronology of the positions of all the German linguistic communication in addition to Allied units through June, July in addition to August. On the map the German linguistic communication units are colored grey, the USA divisions are a khaki green, British units are brownish in addition to the Canadian units are shown inward red.
From the map you lot tin explore in addition to larn to a greater extent than well-nigh each of the units of the First Canadian Army. If you lot a Canadian unit of measurement on the map you lot tin genuinely read that unit's country of war diary for the 87 days of the Battle of Normandy. As you lot progress through the days of the motility you lot tin thence non entirely discovery the advance of the unit of measurement on the map only also read the unit's trouble organisation human relationship of the action, including details well-nigh the soldiers who were wounded or killed during each day's fighting.
Over the coming weeks users volition also also hold upward able to add together photos in addition to stories to the maps.
Also See
D-Day armed forces maps - a hold off at to a greater extent than or less of the master copy maps used during the D-Day campaign
D Day Journeys - a even out map next the journeys of iv Americans who took job inward the D Day landings
