Canadians played an important role in the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, which helped end the Second World War. But victory came at a very heavy cost: the lives of thousands of troops, some as young as teenagers. Jeff Semple reports from Bény-sur-Mer, the Canadian military cemetery where 2,044 headstones bare the maple leaf.
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