Normandy 1944, “Operation Overlord.”

“Normandy 1944. An original upscaled documentary about the Normandy invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe which was launched June 6, 1944, the most celebrated D-Day of the war with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British and Canadian forces on five separate beaches in Normandy France.”

“The six months preceding the Normandy Invasion were a period of civil war in France between the members of the Resistance and the German Gestapo (secret police) aided by Vichy militias. When the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle moved to France after the Allied invasion of Normandy, it took over from a fascist regime in utter collapse. In September 1944, after the liberation of Paris, the new government declared Pétain’s French State abolished, together with all its laws.”

https://www.britannica.com/topic/D-Day-in-pictures-2146801

“After a prolonged naval and aerial bombardment of German defenses on the Channel coast of France and the Low Countries, the Allied invasion of Normandy began in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower issued this statement as his order of the day:”