Featured photo above: June 6, 1945. Juno Beach. Sgt. L.E. Weekes CFPU films the First Anniversary of D Day service. Credit: Weekes Family Archives. While June 6, 2024 marked the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings in Normandy, June 6, 1945, my father, Sgt. Lew Weekes was tasked to film the First Anniversary of the landings as observed on the beaches. The footage he shot was used in Canadian Army Newsreel #75. In searching through his negatives and letters prior to archiving them, I found one letter in particular where he recorded the trip down from Brussels to the … Continue reading D Day: One Year After