Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit

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One of the most widely reproduced Canadian photographs of the Second World War. Sergeant Harold Marshall, of the Calgary Highlanders Scout and Sniper Platoon, posed for Army photographer Ken Bell near Fort Brasschaet in Belgium, September 1944. (PAC)

The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (CFPU) was a unit of the Canadian Army founded in 1941 in order to document military operations during WW2. It was the last unit of its kind to be founded by the Allied armies.

Among the campaigns which it recorded were the invasion of Sicily, the D-Day Landings, the liberation of Paris, and the Elbe River link up of the Allied armies, known as Elbe Day.

Among its members were Charles Roos, the first allied cameraman ashore on D-day, Al Calder, who parachuted over the Rhine, and Ken Bell, who landed at Juno Beach on D-Day with The Highland Light Infantry of Canada.

Bell's war photographs - taken with a Rolleiflex camera - are housed by Library and Archives Canada.[1], in Ottawa.

In 2007, a documentary titled shooters was made by James O'Regan, documenting the history of the CFPU.

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http://www.jamesoregan.com/Shooters/index.htm/ Link to James O'Regan's documentary website.