{"id":11779,"date":"2018-06-09T06:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T10:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11779"},"modified":"2018-06-05T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T02:50:55","slug":"june-6th-commemorated-d-day-landing-in-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/june-6th-commemorated-d-day-landing-in-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"June 6th commemorated D-Day landing in 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11781\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9D7A9C33-B6B3-475D-AA0D-E580C9EEAD84.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11781\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9D7A9C33-B6B3-475D-AA0D-E580C9EEAD84-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9D7A9C33-B6B3-475D-AA0D-E580C9EEAD84-sm.jpg 223w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/9D7A9C33-B6B3-475D-AA0D-E580C9EEAD84-sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Normandy Beach<br \/>German bunkers in IR<br \/>by Lynda Laird<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Are you old enough to remember the June 6, 1944 D-Day landing of allied troops on the beaches of Normandy 74 years ago? The few remaining film clips of that epochal landing are all Canadian although they are often credited to American forces. Bob Lansdale did a detailed story which appeared in Photographic Canadiana 42-2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PC-Vol-43-2-D-DAY-LANDINGS-IN-FRANCE.pdf\">on our website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, my friend Russ Forfar sent me an email with a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\">BBC News<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/in-pictures-44355571\">picture essay by Lynda Laird<\/a>\u00a0on June 4th. She used colour infra-red to show German bunkers on the beaches of Normandy previously hidden by camouflage and shrubbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Are you old enough to remember the June 6, 1944 D-Day landing of allied troops on the beaches of Normandy 74 years ago? The few remaining film clips of that epochal landing are all Canadian although they are often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/june-6th-commemorated-d-day-landing-in-1944\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[1982,1399,1981,1980],"class_list":["post-11779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-bbc-news","tag-d-day","tag-lynda-laird","tag-normandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11779\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}