What Canadian Soldiers Did When a German Major Refused to Surrender

October 1944, Breskens Pocket, Netherlands. The North Sea wind howled across the flat Dutch coastline carrying the smell of salt and gunpowder. Major Jack Morrison stood in a muddy trench staring at the concrete fortress two hundred yards away. Rain hammered against his helmet and ran down his neck in cold streams. Behind him, thirty-four wooden crosses stood in neat rows marking fresh graves. Thirty-four Canadian soldiers dead in three days trying to take that one fortress. Thirty-four families back home who would get telegrams saying their sons and husbands were never coming back.

Some of the sources I used to create this video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbours
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wet_and_muddy_trench_(4687876853).jpg
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/military-history/second-world-war/battle-scheldt
https://definingmomentscanada.ca/veday75/historical-articles/battle-scheldt/
https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/legacy-of-liberation-the-battle-of-the-scheldt-80-years-on/