Series from 2012
War Junk is a two part series that will take the War Junk team to the battlefields of Western Europe where nearly 100 years ago where Allied soldiers …
There really is no more iconic battlefield in Canadian History than Juno Beach. The landings on D-Day on June 6th, 1944 define the courage and sacrifice of our troops during WW2. The images remain with us of those brave young men who faced strong German forces as the ramps of the landing crafts dropped and the battle of Normandy began.
O'Keefe and Abbott will begin in Ypres where the initial battles of the war took place in October and November 1914 but will focus mainly on the area where the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 occurred. O'Keefe and Abbott will search the battlefields in and around this area to find the most dramatic stories to tell and mysteries to solve.
Vimy Ridge is Canada's most known WW1 battle. The War Junk team quickly discovers that there is more to the battlefield than the trenches and craters that scar the land. The fighting at Vimy Ridge also went below ground.
The War Junk team gets a rare and incredible opportunity to investigate a 100 year old German tunnel on sacred ground at Beaumont Hamel also known as Newfoundland Park, the land where hundreds of Newfoundland Troops were killed on the first day of the Somme.
The team travel south of Rome to investigate the Monte Cassino area of Italy. This was one of the bloodiest campaigns fought as Allied forces marched up through the Liri Valley from end of December 1943 until May 1944.