Winston Churchill said that Operation Overlord was 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult' ever undertaken. With nearly three million troops involved, it was an incredible feat of ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.

As part of the episode, a series of maps were flashed on the screen to show the south coast ports where thousands of Allied troops embarked for Operation Overlord. The Allied operation ...