In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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.

Cast

T

Terence McKenna

Narrator

R

Roman Jarymowycz

interviewer

J

Jacques Dextraze

Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

S

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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