my question is for james holland. and i apologize if you already answered it, i was a couple minutes late getting in from lunch. my question is about the canadians on d-day itself. how would you rate their performance in accomplishing their objectives? and what percentage of that success do you think my to be allocated to the fact that they were trained and organized by province, the armored brigades knew the brigades when they arrived? james: think the canadians were pretty good and they did extremely well on d-day. they made inroads. they also suffered proportionately the highest deaths of any of the beaches. the greatest number of deaths were on omaha, but there were more men who landed there. they had the highest ratio. they deserve their own respect. there is plenty of units and training with tanks. this idea that they were being infantryman and training to jump in and out were not really the case. they were pretty good. and pretty determined. to be perfectly honest, i think across the board, the infantry and arm

first, going in the order of presentation first, james , holland. historian, writer, and broadcaster. we have seen him on countless tv shows and documentaries. he's led many of our tours here at the museum. there are too many books -- i would take 10 minutes going through all of his books. just to mention a few of them italy's sorrow, a year of war, 1944-45, fortress malta, the battle of britain. he's working through a three-volume new history of the second world war in the west. have been completed on that. involved in several documentaries for bbc. and james finds time for other interests besides history. and for many people, you think the history just takes over everything in your life, but he is living proof that it doesn't need to, as he is a big fan of the sport of cricket. for our second presenter, very well-known, a long-term friend of the museum richard frank. , internationally renowned expert in the pacific war one of , our longest serving advisors. presidential counselor. he was an historical consultant for our road to tokyo exhibition. a

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from the national world war ii museum's annual conference, historians james holland and richard frankcussed two grim events that took place in june and july of 1944. a hitler's youth division's execution of canadian pows at an 11th-century abby in normandy, france, and the mass suicide of japanese civilians who jumped off cliffs to avoid capture by u.s. forces during the battle of saipan. this next session is kind of a tough as the allies made great one. gains during june of the axis 1944, powers responded. not just through combat, but also through acts of retribution and reprisal. to lead our panel's descent into barbarism, it's my pleasure to turn the stage over to dr. jason. he is a valued member of our institute for the study of war and democracy. he came to us with special partnership for the defense p.o.w. and mia accounting agency where he worked on cases to help bring unaccounted service members home for identification and burial.

next, historians james holland and richard frank discussed two grim events that took place in june and july of 1944. a hitler's youth's division of executions in the north of france and the mass suicides of japanese civilians who jumped off cliffs to avoid capture in the battle of saipan. >> the next session is kind of a tough one, as the allies made great gains, the axis powers responded not just through combat, but also retribution and reprisal. to lead our panel's descent into barbarism, it's my pleasure to