Thank You, Gentleman

Another amazing piece of Canadian Military History, Thank You

Thank you, I am proud of them all, no matter where, when or how they served. They are all Hero's!

Thank you once again, very poignant words to remember. So many things hit home with me as my father was in WW2 in the Canadian Merchant Navy. I also endured the same Legion parking lot stories waiting for my father to finish a cold one. So many memories, God Speed!

Excellent presentation of life behind the scenes of one of our RCAF Photographers. Myself, I have the same model of this issued camera that was used during WW2, Graflex Speed Graphic.

Awesome footage but Ram tanks weren't used in combat.

The original "pretendian".

Excellent footage!

Cool to see Jack Nissan there. I believe James Leasor made him the focus of his book on Dieppe, “Green Beach”.

Great work Dale! Am I wrong in thinking the colour film attachment to the “25th Brigade in Korea” film, the one you say probably comes from the RCN, was used in the recent CBC bit about DDay? If so, I was thinking that the film’s description of attributing it to DDay is wrong. To me the scenes look like they were taken during Operation Fabius, the practice landing, that occurred in May 44. They are very reminiscent of the photos that Gilbert Milne took for Fabius, but it looks like they were taken from a different LCI so it can’t be him. All in all another excellent production Dale!

So we have a Ram tank (never used in battle) and a landing exercise in Southern England. Interesting propaganda footage but not exactly "Invasion Europe", eh ?

This is fantastic stuff. Thank you for sharing.

How precious is that! Thank you!

Well, his theory was right. A copy of Bill Grant’s film, roll boards and all, survived in the US National Archives.

Great colour correction!

Can anyone identify the town where they land? Is Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer or Lagrune-sur-Mer?

Thanks for posting this.

The vehicles were all provided by private collectors or the Swords and Ploughshares Museum of Kars, Ontario. Many of the background folks in the crowd were Dutch Canadians and/or the descendants of Canadian liberators and liberated Nederlanders. One lady in the crowd is an octogenarian who met the Canadians as a little girl!❤

Was just reading the description for this in the federal archives and decided to throw title into KZbin, so glad it's been made public.

It is the Canada I’d rather be in.

Should be a million views and likes. I love this stuff.

I love snow and deep snow is ok to a point. But if i was out in the middle of nowhere and going one hundred yards took an hour or so would scare the hell out of me . Survival skills would determine your fate for sure. With no modern technology or gear these guys are the definition of toughness. Nice film

lots of really how to it winter camping

i watch bill mason's white water films and these are very impressive,the raw unrehearsed quality really stands out.

Thank you, CFPU Combat Cameraman Chuck Ross.

Amazing insight. In this case 2+2=5

Excellent work once again. Fascinating information.Thank you for posting.

Incredible video here. Your video's need far more exposer. Excellent historical coverage. Thank you to the Bill Grant family for sharing.

Thank you for putting this all together, great work.

Please share more Gordon Sparling shorts!