Crusade in Europe

Season 1 Episode 14: D-Day

Paratroops are dropped into France in the early hours of June 6th. Forty-one hundred Allied ships bring the men and equipment across the Channel. Gliders bring more firepower to the paratroops. Allied warships duel with the German coastal guns. American, British and Canadian troops make their landings against heavy German fire. Three thousand Americans are killed, wounded or missing on Omaha Beach that day. But the beachhead is secure and the Allied push inland.

Genre:

Documentary, War & Politics

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

26

Cast:

Maurice Joyce, Hugh James, Westbrook Van Voorhis

Quality:

HD

Duration:

-

First Air:

1949

Rating:

7.3