
The Greatest Landing
Reliving the role Canada played on D-Day

“Tell 14 the Queen’s terrace is wide,” said the BBC presenter over radio airwaves on June 1, 1944. To most listeners in occupied France, the
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.