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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

100% | Jan 26, 1992 | War, Documentary

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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Brian McKenna
Director
Brian McKenna
Writer

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Roman Jarymowycz
interviewer
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Jacques Dextraze
Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)
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Sydney Radley-Walters
Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
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Patrick Goyette
Joseph Le Boutillier

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