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D-Day Film of Juno Beach - Canada on D-Day
D-Day film footage shot on Juno beach by Sergeant Bill Grant, showing
Canadian troops of the Queen's Own Rifles, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division,
landing at Bernieres-sur-Mer, Juno Beach, D-Day.
"It's the film sequence that epitomizes June 6; that indelible
sequence showing darkened but clearly visible figures of the Queen's Own
Rifles of Canada silently exchanging last moment instructions, moving
ladders and rifles into final ready position and patting the forward-most
troops on their backs for encouragement. The doors swing open and the
brighter outside light streams in. The first troops leap out of the landing
craft. Ahead of them, clearly captured in Grant's sequence, are the famous
beach-resort houses that the Germans had incorporated into their coastal-defence
system. It is point-of-view film of the greatest amphibious invasion in
history -- the D-Day landings." (from an article by Ted Barris, Friday,
June 4, 2004 - The Globe and Mail).
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