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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Nazis shot down Cobby Engelberg's plane on D-Day. Now, his son has finally found the farm where Cobby crashed—and the remnants of history that remain
Description: A few weeks ago, out of the blue, Harvey Engelberg received a letter from a farmer in Bassenville, in northern France. The writer was looking for information about a downed Second World War plane that had crashed into her fields on D-Day, back in 1944. She wondered if he knew anything about the event.
Reading the letter from his home in Montreal, Engelberg couldn't believe it. That plane carried his father, Cobby Engelberg, who was 24 and in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a wireless operator during Operation Tonga. On the night before D-Day, his father, along with...