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Original Series
Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans tell the story of one of the most dramatic military operations in history.
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Veterans' interviews
By the time D-Day arrived, Commandos Fred Walker and Roy Cadman were already old hands at beach landings having taken part in the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Looking back
Bob Sales watched his best friend Captain Dick Wright die, moments after arrival on Omaha beach. Bob was the only man from his boat to survive the landing.
Veterans' profiles
George 'Jimmy' GreenΒ led the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach. Known as the suicide wave due to the high rate of casualties, none of the troops from his landing craft survived.
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