In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
26/01/1992
2h



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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.
Cast
Terence McKenna
Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)


Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier


Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds


Adrian Hough
German Officer


Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce


Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer


Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster
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