(5 Jun 2024)
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Beny-Sur-Mer, France – 05 June 2024
1. Various of the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
2. Wide of the Canadian Military Brass Band playing at the ceremony
3. Mid of the Canadian Military Brass Band
4. Pan of the Canadian WWII veterans’ arrival
5. Various Canadian WWII veterans’ arrival
6. Wide of the Canadian War Cemetery and public at the ceremony
7. Tilt up from graves to veterans
8. Mid shot of the Canadian army
9. Tilt up from graves to the Canadian army
10.Mid shot of Navy Captain William (Bill) Wilson, a veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion
11. SOUNDBITE (English) William (Bill) Wilson, a veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion:
"We can never repeat it, all those kids who lost their lives here. Yeah, well, I bet you the average age here is probably around about 21. You know, my friends, they were 18. I was 18. Oh, it’s a long time ago."
12. Mid of General Richard Rohmer, a pilot who took part in the D-Day invasion
13. SOUNDBITE (English) General Richard Rohmer, a pilot who took part in the D-Day invasion:
“For a 19-year-old, which I was then, it was extremely important. I wasn’t afraid, I was buoyed up by the events happening. This is something we had planned for many years, and to be involved in it in a meaningful way. My Mustang fighter (airplane) reconnaissance was significant for me as a 19-year-old. Really significant.”
14. General Richard Rohmer walking along the graves of Canadian soldiers killed in WWII
15. SOUNDBITE (English) General Richard Rohmer, a pilot who took part in the D-Day invasion:”
“When Canada took part in the Great World War, number one. Great World War number two, even though we were miles, hundreds of miles, and thousands of miles away from the battle scene. So, Canadians are always willing to participate in justice and in conquering bad things.”
16. Various of French men planting small Canadian flags next to a grave
17. SOUNDBITE (English) William (Bill) Wilson, a veteran who took part in the D-day invasion:
“My father served in the First World War, and… The British Commonwealth went to war, so we went to war. King and country, all that sort of thing. That’s, that’s the way things were in 1939.”
18. Mid shot of gravestones
STORYLINE:
Canadian World War II veterans visited the graves of 2,000 soldiers buried at the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in France on Wednesday to mark the 80-year anniversary of D-Day
Many of those buried were men of the 3rd Canadian Division who died either on 6 June or during the early days of the advance towards Caen, when the Division engaged a German battle group formed from the 716th Division and the 21st Panzer Division.
The cemetery contains 2,048 Second World War burials, the majority Canadian and 19 unidentified.
Navy Captain William (Bill) Wilson was 18 when he joined the Canadian Navy in 1944, the same year he took part in the D-Day invasion.
General Richard Rohmer joined the Royal Canadian Air Forces at 18, early in the Second World War.
He flew a P-51 Mustang fighter plane over the beaches of Normandy when he was 19 and described the experience as "really significant.”
Production by Aleksandar Furtula
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