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

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

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

Adrian Hough

Adrian Hough

German Officer

Wayne Robson

Wayne Robson

Donald Pearce

Nigel Bennett

Nigel Bennett

Kurt Meyer

Stewart Arnott

Stewart Arnott

Harry Foster

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