Editing 3rd Canadian Division (section)

=====Time line Juno Beach=====
*6 June 1944
**05:35 German shore batteries open fire; Allied naval forces, now massed along entire Normandy coast, begin bombardment.
**06:30 Assault on beaches starts. 3rd Canadian Division landing on Juno made more difficult by strong current. Delay allows Germans to mount strong defence. Objective: advance inland and join troops from British beaches.
**07:00 German radio broadcasts first report of landing.
**08:30 [[48 Commando]] lands at St Aubin, Juno Beach and heads east. Beach clearance difficult due to high tides and rough seas.
**09:00 General Eisenhower issues communiqué announcing start of invasion.
**09:35 Canadian 8th Brigade liberates Bernières.
**11:12 After fierce fire fight, 7th Brigade secures Juno exit at Courseulles. But congestion as Canadian 9th Brigade arrives.
**11:20 Canadians capture Tailleville, Banville and St Croix.
**12:00 As Winston Churchill reports landings to House of Commons, Further landings on Juno. Langrune captured by Juno troops.
**13:35 German 352nd Division wrongly advises HQ that Allied assault repulsed. Message not corrected until 18.00.
**14:15 All Canadian 3rd Division now ashore on Juno. Rapid advances start: troops link with those from Gold.
**18:00 3rd Canadian Div, North Nova Scotia Highlanders reach {{Convert|3|mi|km|abbr=}} inland. 1st Hussar tanks cross Caen-Bayeux railway, {{Convert|10|mi|km|abbr=}} inland. Canadian Scottish link with 50th Division at Creully.
**20:00 Canadians from Juno Beach reach Villons les Buissons, {{Convert|7|mi|km|abbr=}} inland. Attack by 21st Panzers reach coast between Sword and Juno at Luc-sur-Mer.
**22:00 Rommel returns to HQ from Germany. Montgomery sails for France.

Juno Beach: 21,400 troops landed, with fewer than 1,000 casualties. Aim of capturing Carpiquet airfield not achieved. No link yet with Sword forces.<ref name=iuk20040606>{{cite news|title=The longest day|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-longest-day-731283.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612162931/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-longest-day-731283.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 June 2008 |work=The Independent |location=London | date=6 June 2004 | access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref>
[[File:Starving concentration camp prisoner liberated by Canadian 3rd division.jpg|thumb|Members of the 3rd Infantry Division with a starving prisoner liberated from a [[Nazi concentration camp]] in 1945.]]