Robert Bowman was a broadcast

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for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He was the son of Charles A. Bowman, editor of the

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newspaper, and a member of the Aird Commission that recommended Canada have a

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system. During

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he covered the

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, and in the radio programme London After Dark, broadcast 20 August 1940, he is heard interviewing chef Francois Latry at the Savoy Hotel in

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. On the

Dieppe Raid Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was an Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment o ...

of 19 August 1942 - the bloodiest single day of the war for Canada - he was attached to the Canadian troops, and broadcast on Canadian radio the next day. In a 1984 radio interview he explained some of the challenges of the time."How do you cover a war on radio?"
March 25, 1984, CBC, Voice of the Pioneer,

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