Courage and Calvados: The Canadian Correspondents Who Covered D-Day | In In Policy Special | By By David HaltonMatthew Halton covering WWII in Europe for CBC Radio (CBC photo)David Halton’s father, the late CBC foreign correspondent Matthew Halton, often described as Canada’s Ed Murrow, was one of seven Canadian reporters embedded with our D-Day landing forces. By David HaltonJune 4, 2024For Canadian war correspondents, D-Day was a time of both tribulation and triumph. For four days prior to D-Day, the so-called “assault correspondents” were sequestered near Portsmouth. It would be four days before BBC recording equipment was made available for Canadian correspondents and a full two weeks before a CBC recording van was brought over to France. In retrospect, there was an awestruck, celebratory quality about the reporting of D-Day by the Canadian correspondents.
