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Canada at War, Part 9: The Norman Summer
196224 min 49 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Stanley ClishPeter JonesDonald Brittain
Script: Donald Brittain
June - September 1944. D-Day, June 6, 1944. In early morning hours, infantry carriers, including one hundred and ten ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, cross a seething, pitching sea to the coast of France while Allied air forces pound enemy positions from the air. Cherbourg, Caen, Carpiquet, Falaise, Paris are liberated. Canadians return, this time victorious, to the beaches of Dieppe.
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Subject categories
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Allies and Allied ForcesCanadian Military ForcesWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > EuropeWorld War II Military Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > World War II
Credits
- producer
- Stanley Clish
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Donald Brittain
- sound
- Don Wellington
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- editing
- Tony Lower
- re-recording
- George Croll
- Ted Haley
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- music
- Robert Fleming
- Eldon Rathburn
- Ken Campbell
- Maurice Blackburn