{"id":14786,"date":"2019-06-06T05:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:53:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T02:53:51","slug":"juno-beach-75-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/juno-beach-75-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Juno Beach 75 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14787\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14787\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14787\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D-Day-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">June 6 1944, photo by Gilbert Milne Canadian Press courtesy of the Globe.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. June 6th, 1944 was a memorable day. The famous D-Day landings took place on the beaches of Normandy. Canada took Juno Beach in a spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Editor Bob Lansdale has made it his challenge to see that the event and our photographic contribution is remembered, You can read about D-Day\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-the-d-day-landings-facts-and-figures\/\">here<\/a> in the Globe, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.junobeach.org\">here<\/a> on the website of the Juno Beach Centre, or <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PC-Vol-43-2-D-DAY-LANDINGS-IN-FRANCE.pdf\">here<\/a> on our own website or in Photographic Canadiana 43-2.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid in school during the second world war, we commemorated the first world war each November 11th and in particular the Vimy Ridge monument and Ypres. \u00a0My wife and I had grandfathers and uncles that joined the Great War as it was known.<\/p>\n<p>Only one uncle joined WW2 &#8211; and he was just a boy. My wife&#8217;s father tried too but he had injured an eye earlier and his generous offer was declined. There never seemed to be a similar commemoration for a WW2 battle. Perhaps D-Day and Juno Beach are the battles to be remembered by all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. June 6th, 1944 was a memorable day. The famous D-Day landings took place on the beaches of Normandy. Canada took Juno Beach in a spectacular fashion. Editor Bob Lansdale has made it his challenge to see that the event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/juno-beach-75-years-ago-today\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[2625,296,1399,2624,93],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-canadian-military","tag-cine","tag-d-day","tag-juno","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","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=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14793,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions\/14793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}