World War II: Battlefield Europe
Season 1, Episode 20: D-Day at Last, June 1944
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Go behind the scenes of the most iconic military operation of the war: the D-Day invasion of mainland Europe. Focus on Germany's strategy for defense against the coming invasion (including debates over fighting before or after the Allies arrived ashore) and the Slapton Sands landing exercise, where hundreds of Allied soldiers died after an attack by small German attack craft known as E-boats.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Battle of Moscow, December 1941
Episode 2
Anti-Semitism and the Nazis
Episode 3
Tearing Up the Treaty of Versailles
Episode 4
The War Begins, 1939
Episode 5
The Nazis Rise to Power, 1922-1933
Episode 6
The Fall of France, Spring 1940
Episode 7
The Battle of Britain-and the Blitz
Episode 8
Britain and Germany's Standoff at Sea
Episode 9
Hitler, Stalin, and Operation Barbarossa
Episode 10
Roosevelt, Isolationism, and Lend-Lease
Episode 11
North Africa and the Battle of el-Alamein
Episode 12
The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943
Episode 13
Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Episode 14
The Holocaust
Episode 15
U-Boats and the Battle of the Atlantic
Episode 16
The Allies Invade Italy: Sicily to Anzio
Episode 17
Strategic Bombing over Germany
Episode 18
Allied Industry, Spying, and Wonder Weapons
Episode 19
Soviets, Germans, and the Eastern Front
Episode 20
D-Day at Last, June 1944
Episode 21
Hitler Runs Out of Options, Fall 1944
Episode 22
Soviet Push to Berlin and Yalta Power Play
Episode 23
Eisenhower's Endgame in Europe
Episode 24
War's End: Picking Up the Pieces