Canadians go the distance for remembrance in the land where the liberation of Europe began. An emotional 20-day pilgrimage along the route of the Canadian Army in Sicily in WW2.
“Bond of Strangers – The Operation Husky Story” is a 54-minute documentary film that follows ten intrepid trekkers on their 20-day act of extreme remembrance, discovering the special bonds that form among them and with the local people who remember the liberation of 1943.
“Bond of Strangers – The OpHusky Digital Experience” is this interactive website that extends the TV experience to a day-by-day journey through Sicily, from 1943 and 2013. Scroll through history and find a rich experience at every one of the 62 stops: text, photos, videos, maps and extended interviews offer a deeper understanding of OpHusky.
Max Fraser is an independent filmmaker based in Whitehorse, Yukon. He has visited many of the Canadian battlefields and cemeteries of Europe.
The son of a WW2 veteran who landed on “the first D-Day” – in Sicily, 10 July 1943, Max wanted to help reclaim lost history by making a documentary about this crucial campaign of the Canadian Armed Forces that so many seem to know so little about. Operation Husky 2013 became the occasion to make that film.
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Award-winning Canadian author Mark Zuehlke helped write Bond of Strangers – The OpHusky Digital Experience.
Mark wrote Operation Husky – The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10-August 7, 1943 in 2008, one of the early volumes in his Canadian Battle Series, a crucial resource in planning the 2013 events. Mark subsequently wrote “Through Blood and Sweat – A Remembrance Trek Across Sicily’s World War II Battlegrounds.”
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Max Fraser, Producer
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