D-Day: The Light of Dawn

Sky History HD

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Sunday 10 November

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The first of a two-part documentary made entirely with remastered and colourised archive footage, tracing Operation Overlord from its genesis to the Battle of Normandy. The film depicts the epic story of one of the greatest military operations ever conceived by man, from the summer of 1941 - when Churchill and Roosevelt first discussed the issue - to the touch down on June 6 1944. It sets out Hitler's strategy for preventing and countering the landings