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Normandy Alamo: The Destruction of Worthington Force, 9 August 1944

Normandy Alamo: The Destruction of Worthington Force, 9 August 1944 With Mike Bechthold Part of our DDay and Battle of Normandy series    • DDay and the Battle of Normandy   Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series    • 80th Anniversary Special   Please also watch: Operation Totalize - The Allied Offensive in Normandy 1944 - 80th Anniversary Panel Discussion https://youtube.com/live/lvmPkRkJA8o The lamentable story of Worthington Force is well known. During the second phase of Operation Totalize a battlegroup formed by the tanks of the British Columbia Regiment and the infantry of the Algonquin Regiment was ordered to capture a piece of high ground known as Point 195. In the pre-dawn darkness of 9 August 1944 the battlegroup set out on its mission. Rather than capturing Point 195, they found themselves on a different piece of high ground, near Point 140, some six kilometres northeast of their objective. Soon after daybreak the battlegroup was heavily attacked by German units in the area. Lieutenant Colonel D.G. Worthington, the commanding officer of the BCRs and the overall commander of the force, made the fateful decision to stay put and await reinforcements. Unfortunately, nobody came to their rescue. Though small bodies of troops were able to escape, Worthington Force was destroyed losing 240 men killed, wounded and captured, 47 tanks and numerous other armoured vehicles and half-tracks. https://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/wp... Mike Bechthold holds a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia and an MA & Honours BA from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Mike is the author or editor of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) and he is the co-author of a series of guidebooks about the Canadian battlefields of the Second World. He specializes in the fields of military air power (especially tactical air operations in the First and Second World Wars), the Canadian army in Normandy and Northwest Europe, and the Canadian Corps in the Great War. For 22 years Mike worked as the Communications Director of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and the Managing Editor of Canadian Military History, an academic quarterly journal. Mike is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society at the University of New Brunswick, and an Associate Air Force Historian. He recently served as the Executive Director of the Juno Beach Centre Association. https://mikebechthold.com/ Other WW2TV shows to watch: Battleaxe to Lightfoot: The evolution of tactical air power in North Africa https://youtube.com/live/KtzifmbibZo Operation Spring - Verrières Ridge (Normandy) - 80th Anniversary Panel Discussion https://youtube.com/live/qWf3O9ohCD0 Operation Charnwood July 1944 with Ben Mayne    • Operation Charnwood - Normandy July 1944   Canadians vs the SS at Carpiquet Airport - Operation Windsor with Brad St.Croix https://www.youtube.com/live/o1i_kblG... The Battles for Tilly-la-Campagne: July-August 1944    • The Battles for Tilly-la-Campagne: Ju...   with Arthur Gullachsen Operation Spring - The Battle for Verrières Ridge with David O'Keefe    • Operation Spring - The Battle for Ver...   You can become a YouTube Member and support us here    / @ww2tv   You can become a Patron here   / ww2tv   Please click subscribe for updates also "like" the video - it really helps! Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   WW2TV Merchandise https://ww2tv.creator-spring.com/ WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV Patreon Brigadiers: Susan Yu, David Keahey and Tom Mullen Become a WW2TV Brigadier and become part of this Hall of Fame   / ww2tv   July and August - Thanks to our new Patrons and others who have upped a tier: Alan Moss, Scott Driscoll, Veronika Malic, RL Green, Ham and Jam, Terry, Gina Bennett, Fredmauren, Dinger, Mike Owens, Daniel Falch, Karl Reid, Adam Magazine, Philip Kaye and Jack Andrews