Normandy

This essay contains spoilers. Please don't continue unless you want to know key details about the film.

Cast

Introduction

The Last Great Invasion?

The Real 2nd Rangers

Landing on the Dog Green Beach

Early in the war Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, faced with grievous losses in the great encirclements of 1941, was agitating for a second front in continental Europe. The war in North Africa was not enough.

At 12:05 AM on June 6, 1944, three gliders carrying an element of the British 6th Airborne Division silently cut loose form the their tow planes and drifted towards the Pegasus Bridge, one of the few bridges that led over the Seine towards Normandy.