Canadians vs the SS at Carpiquet Airport - Operation Windsor, July 1944, Normandy

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Canadians vs the SS at Carpiquet Airport - Operation Windsor, July 1944, Normandy
With Brad St.Croix
Part of our DDay and Battle of Normandy series
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Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
• 80th Anniversary Special
Operation Windsor was conducted in early July 1944 to capture Carpiquet village and airfield, both originally D-Day objectives that had not been achieved. Carpiquet stood between the Canadian and British units and Caen. Major General Rod Keller turned the planning over to Brigadier K.G. Blackader commander of the 8th Canadian infantry brigade (Queens’ Own Rifles of Canada, Le Régiment de la Chaudière and the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment). The 8th would be reinforced with an attached battalion (the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) and the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade. (Fort Garry Horse, Sherbrooke Fusiliers, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, elements of 79th Armoured Division). The plan was for a set-piece battle. The infantry would advance behind a creeping barrage, supported by tanks on both flanks. In the air, two squadrons of Hawker Typhoons would provide tactical air support. The German units included: I Battalion, Panzer-grenadier Regiment 26 of the 12th SS, and tanks of the 1st SS-Panzer Division (Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler), which counter-attacked on 5 July.
Outside the Box: A New Perspective on Operation Windsor-The Rationale Behind the Attack on Carpiquet, 4 July 1944 by David Patterson
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Dr Brad St.Croix, has a PhD in history, and is best known for creating many types of videos about military history with a strong emphasis on Canadian military history on his channel
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Bloody Buron D+1 - The Battle of Normandy 1944 - With Marc Milner
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@OTDMilitaryHistory 24 күн бұрын

Thanks again for having me on the channel Woody!

@FilipDePreter 21 күн бұрын

Great talk Brad and Woody.

@stevej8005 21 күн бұрын

Great presentation by Brad (love his channel too, by the way). This show ties in really well with some of your earlier shows on the Canadian actions around Buron & Authie and how extremely costly it was for the Canadians to make real progress to get into position to help take Caen.

@OTDMilitaryHistory 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- 24 күн бұрын

Well done Brad and Woody, the operations around Caen have always been an area of interest to me.

@OTDMilitaryHistory 22 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@jimwalsh1958space 24 күн бұрын

That was a good one. Dr Brad is an expert and that's what i saw. He put's background and maps with actual photos of the scenes of conflict of the Carpiquet conflict. i especially like the maps shown. Dr Brad St. Croix is something special. please come back to WW2TV soon.

@garymiller_85 22 күн бұрын

Brad knows his subject inside out and runs a great YT channel.

@davidlavigne207 24 күн бұрын

Well presented by a Canadian Historian who knows his stuff about the Canadian Army during 1944 in Normandy. The way he brings us actual maps with intelligence estimates of enemy positions and gives us overlays of the attack routes tells the story in a unique way. As a former soldier I immediately felt at home with this approach. Coupled with Woody's expert knowledge as a Normandy Tour Guide, and historian in his own right I have a better picture of what little I have read about these battles.

@jimwalsh1958space 24 күн бұрын

i wish i'd said that. thank you david L.

@davidlavigne207 24 күн бұрын

@@jimwalsh1958space It's only the truth as I see it James. You are always supportive of all the presenters too.

@KevinJones-yh2jb 19 күн бұрын

Catching up on a rerun today, Brad is superb, a great presentation. Thanks Brad and Woody

@OTDMilitaryHistory 14 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@grahamwheeler6967 24 күн бұрын

Great presentation, the more maps the merrier! Keep up the good work Paul. Much appreciated!

@OTDMilitaryHistory 24 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@dermotrooney9584 24 күн бұрын

Great stuff Brad and Woody. Thanks again.

@OTDMilitaryHistory 24 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@theDexMcHenry 24 күн бұрын

Another interesting presentation. I note the discussion regarding whether the airfield was an objective. I guess this may vary on whether it is being considered from the tactical or strategic view. The high ground clearly provides a tactical advantage and could be considered the local objective at the time. However, in the Overlord planning, the RAF requirement for airfields included a plan for an Advanced Landing Ground in the area of Carpiquet (the ALG at Caen-Carpiquet is noted as a phase IV objective for Second Army and 83 RAF Group in the Neptune planning; the number of ALGs planned was expressly calculated to support the sheer volume of air operations needed close to the front line) . Later in the campaign, in August, the entire RAF 5353 Airfield Construction Wing was resident at Carpiquet expressly to put it back into use, with a new pierced steel planking runway laid. So it does appear to have some value.

@reiniergroeneveld7801 22 күн бұрын

Excellent presentation Brad! Thank you both!

@OTDMilitaryHistory 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching Reinier!

@Rifleman62 23 күн бұрын

One RWpgRif Rifleman said the motars/shells were falling like a Manitoba hailstorm.

@TJBell-n6y 23 күн бұрын

I am getting addicted to this. A great presentation. What really got me was interested was Brad's pictures of the ground the Canadians had to fight over. Bugger trying to cross that in extended line.

@Chiller11 24 күн бұрын

It always strikes me that from one perspective the British area of operations was described as excellent topography to employ armour and maneuver warfare as opposed to the Americans who are constricted by the hedgerows and narrow lanes of the bocage. On the other hand the open ground and depth of the German defences are described as a huge difficulty to overcome and the cause of grievous casualties. Like so many dilemmas posed by warfare I suppose both can be true to a degree.

@dermotrooney9584 24 күн бұрын

@@Chiller11 There's no terrain type soldiers won't complain about. 😉

@abrahamoyevaar2226 23 күн бұрын

As Salaam alaykum Woody . A fascinating presentation Brad. Thanks Lads. X Abe

@OTDMilitaryHistory 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@rockorockwell1420 10 күн бұрын

Commenting to help get the numbers up! Love what you do here!

@garyaugust1953 12 күн бұрын

Cannot understand why anybody would believe anything written or spoken by Meyer. How he avoided dangling from a rope is beyond me. Detailed presentation by Brad highlighting the heroics of the Canadi😊an battle for Carpiquet 😊

@andrewflindall9048 24 күн бұрын

Picking up on what was said in the after-show chat, aside from the view it gave to the south, wasn't the primary importance of Carpiquet the fact that it's where 12 SS Pz Div chose to fight? The question then becomes at what point did they cease to be a viable offensive threat (if they ever were) and simply became a boil that had to be lanced (cf Douvres)?

@RubinoffPrague 19 күн бұрын

When I first heard of Operation Epsom, I thought it was a reference to Epsom salts.

@mikesmeets4418 3 күн бұрын

Kurt Meyer didn't command Pz.Gren.Rgt.26 before taking over divisional command but Pz.Gren.Rgt. 25. It is striking that no one has noticed this before.

@thequeensowncameronhighlan7883 21 күн бұрын

You mentioned Panzer Meyer's book and it's problems. What do you two think of the 12 SS Div history by Hubert Meyer, the Div's chief of staff ? Sorry, I haven't got his correct German title on hand.

@OTDMilitaryHistory 14 күн бұрын

Not a fan. It just repeats a lot of Meyer’s claims.

@EnigmaCodeCrusher 10 күн бұрын

Please try to use colourised photos in your thumbnails to make it pop out more. I think that some of your thumbnails are too drab. But I do like when one part of the thumbnail has an image of the town sign.

@WW2TV 10 күн бұрын

The problem with colorized photos, is most of them are shit. I try hard to make them look good, but at the same time not like the awful clickbait type that litter KZfaq