If there's a job nobody wants, give it to the Canadians

Just saw a documentary-dramatisation of the D-day landing.

I've known for years that Churchill didn't want to send
British troops to Juno because of the political costs.
The Americans were nowhere to be found, so it was
up to the Canadians.

These guys thought that they were sent because they were
good. Innocent guys, but they were sent to do the dirty work.
Turns out they were good. Excellent.

16 thousand landed, 1 thousand died and the Germans were
cleaned out.
I've also heard that the shock troops were employed in
20th century warfare to bust across the lines. Even in
WW1, the Canadians were known as good shock troops.

Wikipedia: shock troops
According to Ward, the Australian and Canadian divisions deployed amongst British forces in France quickly came to be regarded as the best shock troops in the Allied ranks due to their ferocity in battle, and were employed accordingly.[3][4]

It's so strange that , as they call themselves, a bunch of
farm boys could do such a good job in awful
circumstances. Listen to them talking about it. No
bravado at all. They were all scared stiff, but just got on
with it.

in 8 parts. the last three have interviews with the soldiers.
They're all together on Ytoob.