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Canadian Forces personnel carry the coffin of a deceased comrade onto an aircraft at Kandahar Air Field, 1 February 2009. The number of Canadian Forces' fatalities resulting from Canadian military activities in Afghanistan is the largest for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. A total of 159 Canadian ...
An additional 19 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 3 unspecified non-combat-related deaths, 3 suicide deaths, 2 in a helicopter crash, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots and 1 death from an illness.
Canada's role in the Afghanistan War began in late 2001.Canada sent its first element of soldiers secretly in October 2001 from Joint Task Force 2, [1] and the first contingents of regular Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) troops arrived in Afghanistan in January–February 2002. [2]
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The Canadian artillery guns opened fire on them, resulting in 76 American deaths and many as 138 wounded. [ 234 ] 24 December - Royal Air Force mistakenly strafed an unmarked train on a railway that was carrying into Germany American prisoners-of-war captured in the Battle of The Bulge , killing about 150 of them, according to one survivor ...
As of June 24, 2019, 305 foreign private contractor deaths in Afghanistan as part of the War in Afghanistan are listed in this article. Of these, 121 are Americans, 22 are Britons, 19 are Nepalese, 17 are Ukrainians and 13 are Canadians. [5] At least 58 of those killed were private military contractors or PMCs.
Joseph and One-Six flew to Afghanistan in March 2008 from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and on May 1, assaulted into a suspected Taliban stronghold in a town called Garmsir. There was little resistance. The Marines came home that October and 14 months later, in December 2009, they went again. This time was different.
The second phase of the Australian Defence Force's operation in Afghanistan Operation Hoover: 24 May 2007: 25 May 2007: Kandahar Province district of Zhari: Counterinsurgency: Was a Canadian-led offensive against the Taliban Operation Jacana: 16 April 2002: 9 July 2002: Khost province, Paktia Province