Carpiquet
Always interested in information related to this operation, as my great uncle was killed with the Regina Rifles around La Villeneuve on 4 July 44. The Reginas were not directly involved in Windsor, but their positions at Rots and La Villeneuve overlooked much of the battlefield and they were shelled throughout the day.
I must have missed John's thread on Milner's book last year, but I think they have done a teriffic job in combining period airphotos, accounts, and Map References with current satellite imagery, and investigation on the ground to shed a lot of light on the details of the North Shore's experience in that first month or so ashore and identify detailed locations of various actions. This is the type of detail that I aspire to be able to provide for the Regina Rifles during the same period.
For subscribers to Canadian Military History, there is a piece that I have just skimmed so far in the current issue, by David Patterson. I believe that David's hypothesis is that Carpiquet had relatively little to do with preparations for the Canadian assault on Caen, and was much more focussed on eliminating German postions that overlooked the British in the low ground south of Carpiquet, captured during Epsom and suffering an ongoing pounding from the Germans that remained on that high ground.
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