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Canada at War, Part 9: The Norman Summer

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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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.

History - Canada - 1920-1945 Foreign Countries War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • 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
    Maurice Blackburn
    Ken Campbell

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Ages 14 to 17
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History - World War II
Students will research accounts of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and compare the information in contemporary newspapers and modern textbooks with the first-hand accounts of participants and survivors. Then, playing the role of an eyewitness reporter, students will write a newspaper article about the invasion on D-Day. This activity can be extended to include an on-line publishing unit, or an art unit to re-create an authentic-looking period newspaper.

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