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Chapter 5, Controversies of the second world war, -Canada promised that…

- - - - War in the Atlantic
        
        Navy's main purpose was to defend Canada's coastal waters at first. However in 1940, the number of U-boat attacks on the merchant ships between Canada and Britain had increased; Germany's purpose was to overcome Britain by cutting the lifelines to Canada. By May 1941, German submarines had sank around 6 million tons of supplies. In response, the Royal Canadian Navy had rushed its corvettes into service to strenghen the protection of the convoys.
        
        In 1941, US navy joined Canada in the Battle of the Atlantic. By 1943, Royal Canadian Air Forces bomber provided support for the convoys of the North Atlantic. Canadian forces played a major role of ensuring the safety of thousands of ships and millions of tonnes of cargo.
      - War in the Air
        
        By 1945 the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the fourth largest air force in the world. During the five years, more than 164,000 Canadians had participated the battle.
        
        The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
        
        RCAF had trained more than 131,500 pilots, navigators, and other aviation personnel between 1939 to 1945.
        
        The Battle of Britain
        
        Hundreds of Canadian pilots served in Britain's Royal Air Force during the summer of 1940 when there was German Luftwaffe's blitz bombing of British cities.
      - 1942
        
        All of Europe was under German or Italian control by 1942.
        
        Dieppe
        
        The Allies decided to launch a limited invasion of France by sea at the small French port of Dieppe. Although the area was heavily fortified by Germans, Allied commandars believed that a sudden attack would be effective. However the raid ended up with a failure resulting deaths of 900 Canadian soldiers and another 1900 being captured as prisoners of war(5000 Canadian soldiers took parts in the invasion).
        
        D-Day
        
        The Allies launched Operation Overload on June 6, 1944. More than 5000 ships carried 107000 British, American, and Canadian troops heading for beaches of Normandy in northern France. Canadian troops gained more ground than any other Allies in the first day of the battle known as D-Day. The Allies captured every beach that day and this had became the turning point of WWII in Europe.
        
        In the next 11 months, the Allied forces marched across Europe forcing the German army to retreat. Hitler committed suicide in April 1945 as the Soviet troops entered Berlin. On May 7, 1945 Germany surrended and the war in Europe was over.
      - War in the Pacific
        
        The Battle of Hong Kong
        
        1900 Canadian soldiers participated the three weeks battle between Japan in 1941.
        
        The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered WWII on August 14, 1945 and WWII was over.
        
        The United States joins WWII after the Japan's surprise attack on American warchips in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
- - - - The end
        
        in late 1944, 13000 zombies were sent overseas. Only 2500 men reached the battlefields.