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On D-Day, 15,000 troops in Canada's 3rd Infantry Division landed on Juno Beach under the operational control of the British 1st Corps. The Royal Canadian Air Force committed 39 strategic and tactical squadrons on D-Day, flying 230 sorties of the 1,200 total mounted by Bomber Command. Nearly 10,000 officers and men, more than six times the strength of the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939, served aboard the 126 Canadian fighting ships, including 44 landing craft, participating in Operation Neptune on D-Day.
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