D-Day 80 Years On: The Soldiers' Story

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D-Day was the greatest seaborne invasion in history: this immersive documentary follows the unfolding events through the experiences of those in the frontline of battle – Allied, German, French. Using the raw, unvarnished accounts of the first young men ashore, presenter Giles Milton reveals an astonishing tale of fear, courage, and heroism.

00:00:00 – Part 1: Giles Milton visits the key D-Day sites along the Normandy coastline including Omaha Beach and Pegasus Bridge. We hear the stories of the men and women on both the attacking and defensive lines from undercover spies to radio operators to those manning the machine gun nests. We also visit the beach of Morfa Bychan in West Wales to see where the Allies built replica defences for their invading army to do practice runs of the greatest seaborne invasion in history.

00:45:35 – Part 2: Giles Milton guides us round the critical locations in Normandy where the D-Day invasion proved successful on June 6th 1944. From the gliders who silently went behind enemy lines to paratroopers who ambushed vital German generals to soldiers who ran the gauntlet of machine gun fire and mortar fire on the beaches. We hear from local experts as well as 100 year old veteran Trooper William Gladden who was part of the airborne assault which captured the vital Normandy bridges during the might that helped win D-Day.

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27 thoughts on “D-Day 80 Years On: The Soldiers' Story”

  16. The Greatest Generation By Far !!! My Daddy, My Hero was 82ND Airborne 504 and they were in reserve for D Day,as they were still recuperating from Italy, as they lost so many !!!!! God Bless Them All❤🙏🏻🙏🏻We Shall Never Forget !!!!

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  17. My uncle Eloy went in with the first division first wave, it was his birthday he turned 20 that day. What a way to spend your birthday. He lived through it all and made it home. Rest in peace uncle.

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  19. I’ve read and watched countless documentaries on WW2 and D-Day and it never fails to baffle me of the bravery. It’s seems completely surreal. Brave hero’s 💪

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  20. Fact: 80% Germans were busy fighting Russia. Otherwise, Germans would have liquified American/British soldiers on the beach. In spite of the small fraction of Germans that were there, they still managed to cause massive casualties among the British and Americans.
    Those who survived owe their lives to Russia. Unfortunately, this fact is aggressively censored in USA.

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  27. Your hero military won a Great War. The fought and died for our future. Looking at what the political class has done to their memory today we are a financially broken nation, internally we’re falling apart, externally our politicians have given our wealth away to every country in the world. We Americans have been enslaved to serve the world. And now the Biden administration and his boss Zelensky want the BLOOD 🩸 of our grandchildren.

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