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"When We Got There, The Cupboard Was Bare".

PERRAS, GALEN ROGER

Academic Journal | Canadian Military History. Summer/Fall2015, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p59-102. 44p. Please log in to see more details

In August 1943, Le Regiment de Hull, a French-speaking infantry battalion, part of Gre... more

"When We Got There, The Cupboard Was Bare".

Canadian Military History. Summer/Fall2015, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p59-102. 44p.

In August 1943, Le Regiment de Hull, a French-speaking infantry battalion, part of Greenlight Force, a Canadian Army brigade, landed on the Aleutian Island of Kiska in tandem with a larger American Army force. LRH was unique, being the only Francophone Home Defence unit sent into combat by Canada during the Second World War. This paper explains how LRH was chosen, outlines the many problems it faced and overcame in the training process, and details how the Canadian Army played down or hid the linguistically-based bigotry faced by LRH from both Canadian and American units at Kiska. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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FRENCH-Canadians - WORLD War II - DISCRIMINATION in the military - CANADIAN military - BILINGUALISM - CANADA. Royal Canadian Air Force - 20TH century Canadian military history - TWENTIETH century - HISTORY - ALEUTIAN Islands (Alaska) - CANADA