The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada was the only allied regiment to fully achieve it's D-Day objectives.  Below are wartime pictures of the QOR and some personal accounts of the men of this venerable regiment.

Rifleman R. A. Marshal points out a hole in his Mk III helmet where a German bullet penetrated on D-Day.  Marshal survived the war and was never wounded.	All smiles during training  5 QOR riflemen in England, 1944
Landing on Juno Beach,  Normandy, June 6, 1944          "Then we saw the five pillboxes on top of the sea-wall.  These were our first objective.  About 500 yards out, they us in their sites of their small arms and began shooting....When the craft got into shallower water, the Royal Marines lowered the door...the three in front of me including Doug Reed were hit and killed.  By luck  I jumped out between bursts into their rising blood.  Cold and soaking wet, I caught up to Gibby....the first  burst went through his back pack.  He turned his head grinning at me and said, "that was close,  Dougie."...the next burst killed him."    Doug Hester,  B Company Doug Hester 1945    1999	Read about the D-Day landings, as told by Jim Wilkins, Co. B,  who was wounded on Juno Beach - courtesy of Mr. Wilkins and his daughter, Wendy  (in the picture, he is the tall one to the left of the horse.  Picture of this  group of QOR troops was taken in camp in Sussex, England, 1942).  Doug Hester, whose pictures also appear above is the one standing to the right, near the tent, smiling and with hands in pocket.