This World War II landscape mural of Canada's military in the Dieppe Raid shows the Canadian Navy receding into the vast ocean background in the Battle of the Atlantic. An RCAF Spitfire fighter plane flies into the foreground on the right, while infantry, landing craft, tanks and vehicles receive heavy fire on the beach front.
An RCAF Hawker Typhoon fighter – bomber with D-Day invasion stripes is painted flying past the smoke and wreckage of the Dieppe Raid. While Dieppe was a couple years before the Juno landing, this mural shows both happening in one scene or day.
Where I painted a Canadian landing craft destroyed from the Dieppe Raid, an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) and LCT (Landing Craft Tank) race for the shores of Juno Beach.
Dieppe Defeat: Juno Victory was the most in depth Canadian military mural I have painted so far. The World War 2 Canadian assaults are shown by land, air and sea.
Juno Beach, or “the Day of Courage,” was a random code name for a 10 km stretch of French coastline under Hitler's “Atlantic Wall” that Canadians attacked on June 6, 1944. I painted these soldiers scrambling forward in the foreground of this WW2 mural, and was very thankful to only be the painter in hindsight.
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