No 126 Wing RCAF tribute podcast
Peter Williamson talks with best-selling author Donald Nijboer about his book No 126 Wing RCAF. Our fourth podcast is a......
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Peter Williamson talks with best-selling author Donald Nijboer about his book No 126 Wing RCAF. Our fourth podcast is a......
Our third podcast celebrates the 20th anniversary of the acclaimed documentary series, For King & Empire – Canada’s Soldiers in......
The Story of the World War 2 SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE (SOE) Moderated by CBC’s Award Winning Journalist Nahlah Ayed REGISTER......
In our second podcast, special guests Heather and Stephen Murray share memories about their grandfather, Will R. Bird, the celebrated......
The Great War effected all communities across Canada both big and small. Black’s Corners was a hamlet near Ottawa and......
Event:An evening with Norm Christie When: May 6, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Guest of Honour: 2......
Listen to our first broadcast, as we cover the people behind the launch of the King & Empire Foundation, current......
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These interviews were conducted in 2007 as part of the TV Series, Battlefield Mysteries, for History Channel in Canada. We were very lucky to be able to interview the most important men involved in this famous, maybe legendary, and very brief encounter, that took place on August 8, 1944 during Operation Totalize.
The battlefield was littered with the wreckage of 5 German Tiger tanks, including the Tiger 007, the tank of the highest scoring SS Panzer Ace, Michael Wittmann. Wittmann was a legend to the Germans and his loss was devastating to the moral of the men but the Allies hadn't heard of him until 1983 when his remains were recovered from a lost grave in Normandy. Who killed Michael Wittmann? We had to recreate a 15 minute battle that took place 63 years earlier.
Few realize that 20,000 of the 60,000 Canadians killed in the Great War are Missing. Norm shows how we can resolve some of the mysteries of The Missing. It explains the many reasons that so many soldiers simply vanished from the battlefields. There is particular reference to the missing cemetery that contains 44 soldiers of the Canadian Scottish (including William Milne VC), killed April 9th, 1917 on the Vimy battlefield, CA40.
Norm Christie examines old battlefields and visits the cemeteries and memorials that hold the secrets to the legacy and sacrifices of Canadians. Also, the Special Operations Executive ran underground operations against the Nazi occupiers, and provided a spirit of resistance to the isolated French people. And much more!