(5 Jun 2024)
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Beny-Sur-Mer, France – 05 June 2024
1. Pan of gravestone; UPSOUND of marching band music
2. Marching band
3. SOUNDBITE (English) William (Bill) Wilson, D-Day veteran: ++PARTLY COVERED++
“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. 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."
4. Various of memorial service
5. Gravestones
6. General Richard Rohmer walking along the graves of Canadian soldiers killed in WWII
7. SOUNDBITE (English) General Richard Rohmer, Pilot during D-Day: ++PARTLY COVERED++
“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. 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.”
8. Various of service
9. Various of man putting Canadian flags into earth next to gravestone
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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