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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 (1992)

10 | Jan 26, 1992 (CA) | War, Documentary | 01:44

The Valour and the Horror

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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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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Nicholas Campbell
Guy Simonds
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Adrian Hough
German Officer
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Wayne Robson
Donald Pearce
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Nigel Bennett
Kurt Meyer
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Stewart Arnott
Harry Foster

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