The Normandy Landings: June 6, 1944 | D-Day Documentary

Between 1939 and 1941, the forces of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany blazed a path of destruction, oppression and murder across the map of Europe and beyond and it seemed his ambition could never be satisfied. The world was his goal. Death was his tool. Only a badly beaten and barely holding-on Britain managed to hold back the tide long enough to guarantee that all of Europe wouldn’t be draped in a flag bearing the Swastika. And yet within three years Britain, Canada and the United States along with survivors from the fallen nations would amalgamate into a single force and in one swift move, drive a dagger into the side of Hitler’s dreams of total, European and ultimately global supremacy. That dagger was driven in on the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 and it would be twisted into a wound that would never close. This is the story of Operation Overlord. This is the story of D-Day…

0:00 Introduction
1:55 Planning/Commanders
10:22 Defending the Fuhrer’s European Prize
18:03 The Intelligence Effort
25:05 June 1st - 5th
35:20 Operation Overlord: The Airborne Operation
41:39 Omaha
47:00 Utah
49:39 Gold
51:39 Juno
54:40 Sword
59:21 The Fuhrer’s Response


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Narrated by: Will Earl
Written & Researched by: Tony Wilkins
Edited by: James Wade


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