Nearly one year was devoted to the training and preparations of the Canadian assault division and to the formulating of the assault teams, right down to that of the smallest formation. One can cite, for instance, the use of mock-up craft, taped out, or built of galvanized iron, burlap screens and forms six foot folding, representing the starboard, port and keel benches of a Landing Craft Assault (LCA), the use of scrambling nets, the practice of getting from the deck of a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) into a LCA, the marriage, so to speak, of the recce element of the beach groups (the speedy developments of the beaches to take vehicles, wheeled and tracked), and the assault brigades, the co-ordination of Forward Observation Officers (FOO) and Forward Officer Bombardment (FOB) so that artillery support both from what artillery had been landed and what artillery was still seaborne could be quickly brought down wherever the infantry might be held up.
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