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Mind you, this improvement in Canadian artillery support was trying to compensate for increasing gaps in the ranks of Canadian infantry regiments. As fewer and fewer fresh faces arrived - to replace casualties - Canadian infantry regiments called in artillery more frequently as the war progressed. By late 1944, Canadian infanteers were increasingly reluctant to assault German defenses before artillery had reduced them to rubble.[/QUOTE]
and not unique to Canadian infantry. British infantry Regiments were also short of manpower with surplus aircrew in training being re roled and serious consideration being given to having conscript miners (Bevin Boys) being re roled as infantry by 1945 but there would have been insufficient time to train them before the summer and coal being a shortage item.
Mind you, this improvement in Canadian artillery support was trying to compensate for increasing gaps in the ranks of Canadian infantry regiments. As fewer and fewer fresh faces arrived - to replace casualties - Canadian infantry regiments called in artillery more frequently as the war progressed. By late 1944, Canadian infanteers were increasingly reluctant to assault German defenses before artillery had reduced them to rubble.[/QUOTE]
and not unique to Canadian infantry. British infantry Regiments were also short of manpower with surplus aircrew in training being re roled and serious consideration being given to having conscript miners (Bevin Boys) being re roled as infantry by 1945 but there would have been insufficient time to train them before the summer and coal being a shortage item.