The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (CFPU) was a Canadian Army unit founded in 1941 in order to document military operations during World War II. It...
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Harold Marshall (sniper) (redirect from Harold Marshall (Canadian sniper))
well-known photograph shown here was taken by Army photographer Ken Bell of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit near Fort Brasschaat (nl) in Belgium in September...
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Ken Bell (category Canadian Army officers)
Canadian photographer who served with the Canadian armed forces during the Second World War. As a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit...
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battalion met up with the Red Army (the only Canadian army unit to do so during hostilities, other than a Canadian Film and Photo Unit detachment).[citation needed]...
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Dan Conlin (category 21st-century Canadian historians)
Through the Lens: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit 1941-1945, an illustrated history of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, based on oral history...
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Gordon Sparling (category Canadian documentary film directors)
1932 and continued to direct and produce the series until 1955. During the Second World War, he was the head of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, producing...
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North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment (category Military units and formations of New Brunswick)
Regiment landing under fire taken by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit became one of the most-used film depictions of the Allied D-Day landing. On...
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Caen (category Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast)
Rouen, Cabourg, Deauville or Bayeux. The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit filmed the D-Day offensive and Orne breakout several weeks later. It returned...
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Road to the Reich (category Canadian black-and-white films)
relied heavily on combat footage shot by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, and the British Army film unit, Road to the Reich was edited to provide a...
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RAC helmet (category British Army equipment)
the helmets used by dispatch riders. Belgium United Kingdom Canada Used by Canadian Tankers attached to British Armoured divisions "Steel Helmet, Royal...
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Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI, generally referred to as the Patricias) is one of the three Regular Force infantry regiments of the Canadian Army of...
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from the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit arrived in St. Lambert in two jeeps. They were able to record the events as they unfolded in black and white photographs...
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Bomb (tank) (category Tanks of Canada)
day of action. The tank and crew members Rudolph, Moreault and Hall were the subject of a Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit short documentary made in...
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propaganda films, military training films, and newsreels. Many ASN employees enlisted; some joined the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, as did Sparling...
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Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) (category Military units and formations of Canada in World War II)
Canadian Army, based at John Weir Foote VC Armoury in Hamilton, Ontario. The RHLI is part of 31 Canadian Brigade Group, which is part of 4th Canadian...
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the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, Associated Screen News of Canada, and two National Film Board series, Canada Carries On and The World in Action...
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and the War of 1812. Following the creation of the Canadian Army Medical Department in June 1899, the Canadian Army Nursing Service was created and four...
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footage shot by the Canadian armed forces, especially, the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit in Great Britain and other Allied film units. Headline Hunters...
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Death of Dave Walker (redirect from Dave Walker (Canadian journalist))
Canadian writer, filmmaker and photo-journalist who died under mysterious circumstances in 2014 in Cambodia. Dave Walker was born in Edmonton, Canada...
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opposed to such a plan, and determined to stop it at all costs. U.S. Army Green Beret Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher is part of a unit patrolling outside...
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Calgary Highlanders (category Military units and formations of Canada in World War I)
part-time reserve unit, under the command of 41 Canadian Brigade Group, itself part of 3rd Canadian Division, one of four region-based Canadian Army divisions...
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12 Strong (redirect from Horse Soldiers (film))
story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks and up to the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif. The film stars Chris...
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and Sweeney, cinematographer Mihai Mălaimare Jr., second-unit director Roman Coppola, and composer Osvaldo Golijov. Like several other Coppola films,...
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The Canadian Women's Army Corps was a non-combatant branch of the Canadian Army for women, established during the Second World War, with the purpose of...
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Pablo Schreiber (category Canadian male film actors)
Tell Schreiber (born April 26, 1978) is a Canadian-American actor. He is best known for his stage work and for portraying Nick Sobotka on The Wire (2003...
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The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ), also known as the Baader–Meinhof...
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Oppenheimer is a 2023 biographical film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. An epic with aspects of a thriller, it follows the life...
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Rambo (franchise) (redirect from Rambo V: The Savage Hunt (film))
avoid alerting the army. Rambo helps Sarah and the others to escape. The Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) unit finds their hostages missing and organizes a massive...
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John Ford's D-Day footage (redirect from John Ford's D-Day film)
British and Canadian troops and a 40-minute film, three-quarters of which was either British or Canadian." A screening for 150 "Red Army and Red Navy"...
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Imagery intelligence (redirect from Photo intelligence)
Intelligence (GEOINT). Arthur C. Lundahl Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Centre (Canadian GEOINT organization) Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO)...
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