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

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  • Author(s): PERRAS, GALEN ROGER
  • Source:
    Canadian Military History. Summer/Fall2015, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p59-102. 44p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      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
    • Subject Terms:
      ALEUTIAN Islands (Alaska); CANADA
    • Abstract:
      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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