Fighting Them On the Beaches - The D-Day Landings June 6, 1944

Tells the story of one of the largest and most meticulously organized seaborne invasions in the history of warfare: D-Day. As the parachutists and glider troops of the US and British Airborne divisions went in on the night on June 5, Allied shipping began massing out in the Channel. As dawn broke on June 6, waves of assault craft hit the Normany beaches. British, American, Canadian, Polish and Free French troops began to stream, ashore to storm the defences of the Atlantic Wall in the teeth of overwhelming enemy firepower...