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D-Day: The Tide Turns follows the real people involved in the Normandy Landings.

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D-Day: The Tide Turns
1. The Spy Who Fooled Hitler
In the dead of night, two British commandos carry out an intelligence gathering mission.
04 Jun 2024,51 mins
D-Day: The Tide Turns
2. An Imperfect Storm
A storm brewing in the Atlantic threatens to scupper the D-Day invasion plans.
06 Jun 2024,26 mins
D-Day: The Tide Turns
3. Behind Enemy Lines
A mysterious radio broadcast summons help from behind enemy lines...
13 Jun 2024,41 mins,
D-Day: The Tide Turns
4. The Longest Night...
On the eve of D-Day, Eisenhower writes a letter of apology for if the operation fails.
20 Jun 2024,30 mins
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5. Crash Landing
In the dead of night, airborne troops become the first Allied soldiers to land in France.
27 Jun 2024,30 mins
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6. The Armada Advances
Seven thousand ships depart from Britain. On board, the soldiers prepare themselves...
04 Jul 2024,40 mins,
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7. Omaha Beach
American forces land on Omaha, the most deadly of the D-Day beaches...
11 Jul 2024,43 mins,
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8. Suicide Squad
In this episode, a very personal D-Day story, the story of our host Paul McGann's father.
18 Jul 2024,37 mins
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9. Katastrophe
D-Day, but from the German perspective...
25 Jul 2024,34 mins
D-Day: The Tide Turns
10. Journalists on the Front Line
Allied journalists parachute into France and land on the beaches with the invasion force.
01 Aug 2024,34 mins,
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11. Angels of Mercy
Thousands of nurses begin landing in France, some of them never to return...
08 Aug 2024,40 mins
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12. The Road to Paris
We conclude our D-Day story. What happened after the sixth of June?
15 Aug 2024,59 mins