Canadian D-Day Film Footage Among the Best Known Invasion Images

Canadian D-Day Film Footage Among the Best Known Invasion Images
Some of the most vivid film footage of the D-Day landings 75-years ago was shot by a Canadian military film unit using technology obtained from U.S. allies. Canadian soldiers land on a Normandy, France beach during the D-Day invasion June 6, 1944. Department of National Defence/The Canadian Press
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HALIFAX—Some of the most vivid film footage of the D-Day landings 75-years ago was shot by a Canadian military film unit using technology obtained from U.S. allies.

Unlike the American and British beaches, the Canadian landings at Juno Beach were shot from inside the landing craft providing a visceral “first person” perspective, according to Dan Conlin, a historian and curator at the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax.