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  1. I am Proud of being British and I love our Canadian cousins it is my Opinion without Canada WW2, we would have been in Massive trouble, especially after Dunkirk, when the only fully equipt army in the UK was the Canadians Canadians mobilized in manufacturing and they made more than 800,000 military transport vehicles, 50,000 tanks, 40,000 field, naval and anti-aircraft guns and an astonishing 1,700,000 small arms. They aided the British by giving their army 38% of their 800,000 military vehicles, keeping 168,000 for Canadian troops and the rest was spread out to Allied troops. Canadians also dabbled in the making of heavy utility vehicle bodies, the General Motors factory in Oshawa made 4,000 vehicles, all that could be used as ambulances, personal carriers, light wireless vehicles, trucks or machinery. Canada’s Gross National Product (the sum total of all goods and services created by the Canadian population of 11.2 million people) was $5.6 billion. This would change drastically by 1945 when the GNP was estimated as high as $11.8 billion, almost doubling in 6 years. To give us an idea of how this number grew so fast, we must understand how Canada’s raw materials made a huge contribution to the eventual Allied victory. Canadians produced 40% of aluminum, 95% of nickel, 75% of asbestos, 20% of zinc, 12% of copper, and 15% of lead. Just raw materials produced $5.8 billion between 1939-1945. Canada was a leader in manufacturing weapons and equipment, being the 4th most lucrative behind the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. For such a large country with a small population, this proved the dedication of Canadians to their soldiers and to peace. All in all, Canada’s wartime production was valued at over $9.5 billion, equivalent today to over $100 billion. My Love and Thanks, I can never repay what Canada did for me I survived WW2
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  2. I was in London a couple of years ago, and they had some of the remaining and restored small boats on display, with a Plaque to indicate they were there. Some were Very Big , yachts, and some were small Boats One Boat could easily take 100 soldiers on deck and in the cabins
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  3. Most people forget that US servicemen only spent 16 months overseas and went Home so all the US soldiers in the UK from January 1942 until may1943 never saw a German and all those from the USA had never seen a german until they landed on Normandy and the Bulk of the Ships were British Royal Navy
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  4. Canada also built bombers, including: 626 Bristol Blenheim light bombers: 160 Handley Page Hampton medium bombers: and 430 Avro Lancaster 4-engine heavy bombers, which could carry the heaviest bomb loads used in the European theatre: 1,134 Curtiss Helldiver aircraft for aircraft carrier operation 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain accounting for 60% of all kills, although it was overshadowed in the press by the faster Supermarine Spitfire, 1,134 de Havilland Mosquitos, perhaps the most successful and versatile plane of the Second World War: ww2 faster British aircraft Thank you Canada Note did you know that it was Canada that liberated Holland
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  5. The British Pilots had all the Fuel we needed the Luftwaffe was short of aviation Fuel even with Standard Oil of Nwe Jersey supplying all the Could
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