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Canada at War, Part 7: Road to Ortona
196227 min 46 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Stanley ClishDonald BrittainPeter Jones
Script: Donald Brittain
July 1943 - January l944. The objective at last--Fortress Europe. The Canadian 1st Division, flanked by the British and Americans, pushes into Italy. Italians surrender but the Germans resist. Ortona, a 15th-century town, riddled with bullets and grenades, is taken by Canadians in fierce and costly street fighting.
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- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Allies and Allied ForcesCanadian Military ForcesNewsreelsWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > EuropeItalyWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > World War II
- Media Education > Documentary FilmJournalism/News
- History > World War II
Credits
- producer
- Stanley Clish
- Donald Brittain
- executive producer
- Peter Jones
- script
- Donald Brittain
- editing
- John Kemeny
- sound editing
- Kenneth Heeley-Ray
- Victor Merrill
- re-recording
- George Croll
- Ted Haley
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- music
- Robert Fleming
- Eldon Rathburn
- Maurice Blackburn
- Ken Campbell