In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

10.0

1 hr 44 min

1992-01-26

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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.

War

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

Narrator

Roman Jarymowycz

Roman Jarymowycz

interviewer

Jacques Dextraze

Jacques Dextraze

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Sydney Radley-Walters

Sydney Radley-Walters

Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)

Patrick Goyette

Patrick Goyette

Joseph Le Boutillier

Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell

Guy Simonds

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