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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

War | Documentary

10.0

Release Date

January 26, 1992

Duration

104 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

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Terence McKenna

Narrator

Terence McKenna

Roman Jarymowycz

interviewer

Roman Jarymowycz

Jacques Dextraze

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Jacques Dextraze

Sydney Radley-Walters

Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

Sydney Radley-Walters

Patrick Goyette

Joseph Le Boutillier

Patrick Goyette

Nicholas Campbell

Guy Simonds

Nicholas Campbell

Adrian Hough

German Officer

Adrian Hough

Wayne Robson

Donald Pearce

Wayne Robson

Nigel Bennett

Kurt Meyer

Nigel Bennett

Stewart Arnott

Harry Foster

Stewart Arnott

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