INVASION METHODS
STRENUOUS TRAINING IN BRITAIN ACTIVITIES OF CANADIAN DIVISION. COAST ASSAULT TACTICS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.13 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21. Several thousand troops ot the First Canadian Division recently put through a strenuous week in secret training in coast assault tactics in preparation for the time when a British offensive strikes back al the Nazis in Europe.' The brigade group included infantry, engineers, artillery, machine-gun men and signal units. It slipped quietly away from a Southern England camp and travelled by train and boat to a special training territory. The Canadians, aided by British Army and Navy officers, learned the trying technique of assault landings on beaches and within a few days were effecting landings in full battle kit. The deepest secrecy surrounded this drill in invasion preparations. Some Canadians were put into the blunt-nosed motor landing vessels used six months ago in the Lofoten Island raid. Two infantry regiments went through a most strenuous drill, with route marches of from 10 to 20 miles and practice in jumping from shipboard to small bobbing boats, and effecting landings in coastal areas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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185INVASION METHODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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