In October 1944, a captured German artilleryman sat across from a Canadian intelligence officer and said something no one expected. He was glad it was over. Not the war. Just being on the other side of Canadian guns.<br /><br />He had fought in Russia. He had survived Allied bombing raids. None of it compared to what happened when he fired at the Canadians and they answered. He called it an execution.<br /><br />German officers across the Western Front kept saying the same thing — that Canadian artillery was different. Not bigger. Not louder. Something else. Something they couldn't explain and couldn't stop. Veterans who had endured Soviet rockets and American air strikes singled out Canadian guns as worse than all of it.<br /><br />What made it different had nothing to do with the shells. It started with one man in 1917 and a decision that took 28 years to pay off.<br /><br />#canadianwarstories #ww2 #canadianarmy #militaryhistory #canadianhistory #worldwar2
