D-Day 75th Anniversary Special

TRAINING FOR D-DAY
Training the tens of thousands of troops who would take part in the Normandy landings was a major endeavour and in one notorious exercise, would prove disastrous.

OPERATION NEPTUNE
To carry the assaulting forces to Normandy would be an enormous operation – indeed it would be the largest amphibious operation ever attempted.

STORMING THE BEACHES
With men of the airborne forces having already set foot on Occupied Europe, Hitler's Fortress Europe was about to be assailed from the sea.

OVERLORD COMPLETE
The Germans had been convincingly defeated in Normandy, and the final objective of Overlord – the liberation of Paris – was imminent.