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Originally Posted by Exakt
I haven't forgotten them, since I am a Canadian myself, but at the beginning of WWII, we had a meager military navy (RCN) and also, we were still using the same ensign as the British back then, so it is easy to think that a ship is British. By the end of the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945), the RCN was the primary navy in the northwest sector of the Atlantic Ocean and was responsible for the safe escort of innumerable convoys and the destruction of many U-boats — an anti-submarine capability that the RCN would build upon during the post-war. By the outbreak of war in September 1939, the RCN still had only six destroyers and a handful of smaller ships. Also, a lot of merchants gave their lives, since Canada had the 2nd world's biggest merchant navy in WWII. |
So true....it is also factual that the Canadians were often treated as the poor relation by the UK and US in terms of the release of vessels and modified/newly available equipment.