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CBC goes back in time to cover D-Day with today’s technology

TORONTO – With the 70th anniversary of D-Day just over a week away, the CBC is offering Canadians the chance to go back in time and relieve the historic events in real time.Through a multiplatform project known as D-DAY LIVE, CBC News is re-creating the events of this pivotal World War II event in an interactive breaking news timeline, online and on CBC News Network, CBC Radio, and during CBC Television live special programming on June 5 and 6.  CBC journalists have pieced together crucial moments from archives, as well as documented new stories, anecdotes and never-before-seen artifacts and images.“D-DAY LIVE is a modern...