A compelling insight into the assault on D-Day; with survivors describing it as 'out of this world', we take a look the impact on those that stayed at home.
D-Day transformed large parts of Britain into an armed camp. Troops came from all over the world. Relationships with the local residents grew and some of them lasted.
Facing the bombing by the Luftwaffe, children in their thousands were evacuated. Sometimes whole schools moved to safer areas. This is the story of one of them.
Britain made huge efforts to conceal from the Nazi's the precise beaches on which D-Day troops would land. This is the story of a highly successful deception plan.
War kills people. It also produces more sophisticated ways of doing so, and conversely inventions that will nullify the new sources of death.
The disaster of the raid on Dieppe is followed by a rehearsal for D-Day at Slapton Sands which was interrupted by an onslaught by German E-boats, causing hundreds of deaths.
Film star Richard Todd recalls dropping, as a paratrooper, on Pegasus Bridge, a target that it was vital for the British to capture and hold.
