D-Day, 75 Years On

Seventy-five years ago today, D-Day, Operation Overlord was launched: the invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe" ("Festung Europa").  This footage from the historic "Victory at Sea" television documentary series provides a dramatic look at the planning, preparation and execution of this heroic effort by primarily British, Canadian and American forces, but including forces from Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.



Documentary filmmaker Jack Lieb narrates his color footage of D-Day -- before, during and after.  He puts names to some of the faces -- a small subset of the generation to whom we owe so very much. 



It's hard to swallow that the evil that these heroes fought so valiantly is still extant in the world.