D-Day Remembered: Minute by Minute

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The first 24 crucial hours D-Day is told - minute by minute - by the last surviving men who witnessed the horrors and victory unfold. Diaries and stories, told by those left behind, recount the personal experience of the men who were there.

Episode 1Invasion

D-Day begins with a daring British airborne assault and the capture of two strategic bridges. Arlette Gonfree, recalls how hers was the first French family to be liberated.

Episode 2Victory

Canadian Jim Parks loses his equipment in the sea when his landing craft hits a sandbank. Swimming ashore, he recalls helping to retrieve the dead and wounded from the water line.

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