While glory was to the front, the First Canadian Army, undermanned and facing supply problems, in a campaign overshadowed by nearly everything else in the war, was given the unsung task of clearing the channel coast. On September 22, 1944 operation Unergo began.
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The unsung heroes of the naval war in the Western theater weren’t the city class casemate ironclads, but a much larger and more active fleet of more than seventy, much smaller, lightly armored vessels. The “Tinclads” of the US Civil War deserve to be remembered.