Canada's Role

Operation overlord took place on of five different beaches along the coast of Normandy, Canada was given the task of taking Juno beach. The invasion began at 7:30 after 230 bombers had softened the German defences. Fourteen thousand Canadians stormed Juno beach by the time the Canadians had taken the beach three hundred and forty men had died with five hundred and seventy wounded. By the end on the day the Canadians had fought their way inland to the towns of Bernieres, Couseulles and ST.Aubin; farther than any of the troops on the other beaches and were ready to take carpiquet airfield eleven miles inland.
The force coming in from the water wasn’t the only force of Canadians invading Normandy a battalion of Canadian paratroopers was dropped behind enemy lines for the purpose of reconnaissance and sabotage.

“At the end of the day, its forward elements stood deeper into France than those of any other division. The opposition the Canadians faced was stronger than that of any other beach save Omaha. That was an accomplishment in which the whole nation could take considerable pride.” - John Keegan, British historian.