D-Day: The Unheard Tapes

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1:40 AM to 2:50 AM

Monday 14 April

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The story of the bloody battle for Normandy that followed D-Day, narrated by soldiers on both sides and French witnesses, whose words are lip-synced by actors. Despite the hard-won foothold made on the coast, the Allies still faced their greatest challenge. As the British and the Americans respectively tried to take Caen and Cherbourg, Nazi troops began a regime of counterattacks, leaving the Allies bogged down amid the dense Normandy hedgerows