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On the night of April 13, 1945, in the final weeks of World War II, French-Canadian soldier Léo Major (a one-eyed sniper from the Régiment de la Chaudière) turned a simple reconnaissance mission into one of the most extraordinary solo feats of the war.Tasked with scouting German defenses in the occupied Dutch city of Zwolle (home to ~50,000 civilians), Major and his best friend Corporal Wilfred "Welly" Arsenault advanced under cover of darkness. When Arsenault was killed by machine-gun fire near the city outskirts, the enraged Major (already partially blinded in one eye from a D-Day phosphorus grenade wound he refused to let sideline him) decided to act alone. Armed with two Sten submachine guns, pockets full of grenades, and sheer audacity, he infiltrated Zwolle. Over the next several hours, he:
Ran through streets and alleys, firing bursts from multiple directions to simulate a large-scale Canadian assault.
Tossed grenades to create chaos and the illusion of surrounding forces.
Captured German prisoners, set fire to the Gestapo/SS headquarters, and even entered a bar full of officers to bluff a high-ranking German into believing thousands of Allied troops had the city encircled.
Coordinated (with help from local Dutch resistance contacts) to spread panic among the garrison.
By dawn on April 14, the German forces — convinced they faced an overwhelming invasion — had fled the city entirely. When Canadian troops arrived later that morning, they walked into a liberated Zwolle without firing a single shot. The planned Allied artillery bombardment that would have devastated the city and its civilians was canceled thanks to Major's actions.This one-night psychological warfare operation by a 23-year-old private with an eye patch saved an entire city from destruction and earned him his first Distinguished Conduct Medal (he remains the only Canadian to win the DCM twice in two different wars).
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