Terrific piece.  Reminds me of reading Mark Zuehlke's fabulous book on the Sicily campaign, "Operation Husky."  Gunter also reminds me of another Canadian soldier, fighting his own war in Europe: Sergeant Charles Kipp, whose "everyday" exploits in France stunned readers of his memoirs half a century later, in "Because We Are Canadians."  How tough was the slogging after D-Day?  Kipp was wounded NINE times.  His greatest battle, however, was the one he fought for decades after he returned and attempted (successfully) to lead a fairly normal life: Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome.  Just two of thousands who, in many ways, unknown to the rest of us, were heroes...