Thursday, March 20th 2025

“News From the Front: The Fredericton Region Regiment’s participation in the WWII Italian Campaign”

by Frantically Atlantic at the Drew Nursing Home. // The show features popular songs from the 1940s 🎼 Carleton and York Regiment’s involvement in the WW2 Italian Campaign after serving in the UK on anti-invasion duties, on 10 July 1943, the battalion landed in Sicily as part of Operation Husky where it fought for 38 days. The battalion would then on 3 September 1943, take part in the invasion of Italy and would serve with the rest of the I Canadian Corps in the Italian Campaign 1944.