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Shrapnel - Donald Fraser - We were there
German Shrapnel Bursting over Canadian Troops
Despite the best plans of senior command and the effective use the Canadians made of their artillery, German batteries were still able to inflict a casualty rate of about 25 percent on the advancing Canadian infantry. Still the Vimy campaign was considered a success because earlier battles in the war had seen casualty rates twice as high and without any significant gain in amount of ground captured.
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