Что немцы обнаружили во время ночной атаки на канадский штаб

A Panther tank stopped in the middle of a Norman village just before midnight — not at a crossroads, not at a gun pit, but at the front door of a stone house. Behind that door was the headquarters of the Regina Rifle Regiment: maps on a kitchen table, signallers, clerks, and a forty-year-old accountant from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who had been on French soil for sixty hours. The previous morning, Lieutenant-Colonel Foster Matheson had done something with that headquarters that no manual recommended. It is the reason the tank was at his door. June 8, 1944. Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, astride the Caen–Bayeux highway. The 12th SS Panzer Division sent its Panthers into the village in the dark, with almost no infantry beside them, certain that armour in an enemy's rear at night ends a fight before it starts. What the Germans found inside that headquarters had never once stopped them in two years in Russia. Their own divisional historian later admitted, in writing, what did. #canadianwarstories #ww2 #canadianarmy #militaryhistory #canadianhistory #worldwar2