In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
- 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.
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
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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