D-Day to VE-Day - From D-Day to Paris
Operation Overlord, the greatest invasion by sea and air in history, grows before your eyes from its original force of 130,000 to more than half a million men along with thousands of tanks and planes contains. The actual landings on D-Day in Normandy Reinforcements, first prisoners and captured towns cleared. The liberation of Cherbourg by American forces and of Caen by British and Canadian soldiers
German counter-attacks and the V1 Flying Bomb. The miraculous Mulberry Harbour, British and Canadian forces in the Orne Basin The Free French forces in operation. News from the other European fronts: Russia, Italy and the South of France. The liberation of Paris. Resistance street fighting. De Gaulle's re-entry into Paris and the sniper attack on him during the celebrations.
