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Eighty years ago, the Allied Forces went ashore in Normandy, France, in a pivotal battle that would lead to the end of the Second World War and change history.
Morrison, who served at the Permanent Mission of Canada to United Nations for six years and was the founding president of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Cornwallis Park, hopes residents pay attention to the 80th anniversary of D-Day. By the end of the day, Canadians had pushed 12 kilometres inland, but it came at a significant loss of life. There were 1,074 Canadian casualties on D-Day, including 381 who were killed.
He was eight when the Second World War ended. While he doesn’t remember D-Day specifically, he remembers the war. Bawtree wrote a one-man show and performed it in five different locations in England in 2009 for the 65th anniversary of D-Day. It was a dramatized account of the capture of Pegasus and Horsa bridges just after midnight on D-Day when six gliders landed behind enemy lines.
Bawtree said there was concern that the Germans would destroy the bridges if an invasion began in order to slow the Allies’ march inland. But the six gliders landed on, and captured, the bridges, in a place they hadn’t seen before.
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