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Overseas Commentary

Item number (ISN):

226673

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

226673

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1984-0164

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1944-09-19

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Peter Stursberg; Don Fairbairn; Benoit Lafleur

Description:

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This consists of the following reports from overseas by war correspondents.~Peter Stursberg of the CBC reports from the Italian front about the slow advance of the Allies along the Adriadic near Rimini. The Canadian troops to whom he has spoken call the fighting in the region their most difficult to date. Canadian forces are spearheading the 8th Army drive on Rimini. Stursberg talks about the German paratroopers fighting against the Allies in the area, efforts to dislodge the Germans from San Fortunato, and the heavy artillery barrages by the Germans.~Report recorded September 19, 1944 by Don Fairbairn of the RCAF in Brussels. He reports on the landing of Allied airborne troops on Sunday, September 17, 1944 in the area of Veghel, 15 miles north of Eindhoven in Holland and their linking up with the Second British Army advancing from their bridgehead over the Escaut Canal. Fairbairn also talks about other Allied action in Nijmegen and Arnhem.~Report in French by Benoit Lafleur of Société Radio-Canada, about fighting by Canadian troops in the Rimini sector and the Po Valley.

Language:

English / Français

Notes:

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1. For reference tape see 1982-0043/0297.~2. The sound of a music program is avalible at intervals during the Stursberg report, possibly due to atmospheric disturbance during the shortwave transmission.~3. Rimini was captured by Canadian and Greek troops on September 21, 1944.~4. CBC disc inventory gives donor original number as 440919-0 and 440919-1 but 440919-1 is the correct number.

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Vault ISN:

251894

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/1623

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Technical description:

GLASS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

944575

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

226673-1984-0164-1623.wav

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1984-0164/1623

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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