A wounded man, fresh from the battlefield, shocked Canada last week. Said Major Connie Smythe, M.C., peacetime boss of Toronto's Maple Leaf Hockey Club: Canadian overseas casualties were high because Canadian reinforcements were green and poorly trained. Major Smythe is recuperating at Toronto's Chorley Park Military Hospital from wounds received at Caen. ''Many [reinforcements]," he charged, "have never thrown a grenade. Practically all have little or no knowledge of the Bren gun and . . . most of them have never seen a Piat antitank gun, let alone fired one."
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