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In the early hours of June 6th, 1944 Allied forces began the greatest military assault ever attempted. They came to Normandy by both air and sea with one objective.

For nearly five years, Hitler's Third Reich has dominated Europe. Germany braces for an Allied invasion, fortifying the Atlantic Wall with steel, concrete, and advanced weaponry.

After 18 months of preparation, the Allied Expeditionary Force launches the largest amphibious landing in history, with 160,000 troops storming the Normandy coast.

After a brutal day of relentless combat, the Allies secure a 50-mile bridgehead in Normandy.

Germany's retreat continues as the Allies liberate France and Belgium. Montgomery's ambition to end the war risks more than his reputation as the push toward the Netherlands begins.

Eisenhower approves a plan to break German lines by Christmas. With just seven days to prepare, Monty ignores warnings, rushes the largest airborne assault ever, and pushes ahead despite rising risks.

Airborne troops flood the Netherlands as 50,000 tanks surge from Belgium. However, stronger-than-expected German forces resist fiercely, causing the ambitious operation to falter.

Market Garden stalls with tragedy at Arnhem, stalemate at Nijmegen, and chaos elsewhere. Outnumbered 4 to 1 in places, even Montgomery's gamble can't overcome the mounting odds.

Eisenhower halts Monty's costly gamble as British forces retreat before destruction. Heavy casualties and strategic failures haunt the Allies, with lasting effects for the war's remainder.

After six months of retreat across Northern Europe, Adolf Hitler's forces on the Western Front are back behind Germany's borders.

American forces reel from the impact of massive surprise attack along an 80-mile front in The Ardennes Forest.

As the last Nazi offensive of the war develops, the vicious SS Panzer resort to murder, a dangerous fifth column slips into the American camp causing chaos and confusion, and the desperate defense of a key Belgian town seems doomed.

Eisenhower brings in the Airborne Divisions to reinforce the Allied front lines, a legendary US General leads a furious charge up country to relieve the surrounded town of Bastogne, and Hitler panics as the German offensive begins to stall.

The Germans launch a last desperate attack while improved flying conditions enable the US air forces to bring added strength to the battle. The troops on the ground continue to suffer the effects of the coldest Belgian winter in history.

With fuel and supplies all but depleted, the Germans withdraw and end up back where they started. With the battle won, hard questions are asked as to how such a bitter and bloody battle could catch the Allies off-guard.

The beginning of 1945 sees millions of troops assembled in central Europe.

The leaders of the world's future superpowers hold a conference in the Crimea to agree a post-war framework for Europe, and must overcome deep political division to do so.

The great rivers of the Rhineland along Germany's western border must be crossed to take the fight to the enemy's home turf.

General Bradley's army group launch operations to get over the Roer and Rhine Rivers in the centre and the south of Germany's western border.

As the allies in the west move deeper into the fatherland, they discover a vast network of concentration and forced labor camps.

The Soviet forces on Germany's eastern border, now refreshed and resupplied, are given a challenge by premiere Stalin.

The final battle of the war begins as Russian forces advance rapidly into Berlin smashing its defenders back towards an ever-shrinking last stand.

After surviving the German bombing campaign of British cities, RAF Bomber Command struck back against Germany. The devastating consequences of raids, for both for the young men in the skies and the people on the ground, are portrayed in this film.

In this film, Bomber Command personnel and a Luftwaffe pilot take the viewer through the frightening reality of fighting in the skies as they try to get a damaged bomber home.

During the Second World War, 250,000 Canadian women helped to build the arsenal of democracy. These young women met the challenges of factory work and helped to win the Second World War, and by doing so, paved the way for future generations.

The Sicily Campaign began with the largest seaborne invasion in history on 9-10 July 1943. The Allied forces of Britain, Canada, and the United States sought to knock Italy out of the war and attack Germany from the south.

The War Inside is a personal retelling of one of the fiercest battles of the Italian Campaign from the searing points of view of Canadian infantrymen, a tanker, a stretcher bearer, and a German paratrooper.

The Road to Rome examines the incredible experiences of Canadian veterans, the victories and horrors of armoured combat, and the pivotal value, far too often neglected, of the overall Italian Campaign.

In Normandy, the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion proved itself to be in the vanguard of the best-trained and toughest units in the Allied forces.

In mid-September 1944, the remnants of the battered 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion participated in the largest parachute drop in history, fought a successful battle.

In 1941, nearly 30,000 Jews escaped the ghettos and work camps and they joined the growing underground resistance army, actively fighting the Nazis.

On 16 November 1941, two Canadian battalions arrived in the British colony of Hong Kong. Their aim: Bolster the Empire’s defenses in the event of aggression by the restless forces of Japan, stationed only kilometres away in occupied China.

On 16 April 1945, a mere three weeks before German surrender, the submarine fired a single torpedo that sank the last Canadian naval vessel lost to enemy action.

For two months in 1944, 168 Allied airmen were shot down over occupied France, betrayed to the Gestapo by the same collaborator, transported to the Nazi concentration and slave labour camp Buchenwald.

In the longest campaign of the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945, German submarines desperately try to sever Britain’s shipping lifeline across the Atlantic Ocean. Canada plays the central role in the campaign.

In the summer of 1942, the Germans advance to seize the rich oilfields of the Caucasus. In their path, the city of Stalingrad, its Soviet defenders personally ordered by Stalin to “take not one step back".

Royal Canadian Air Force bombing operations play a crucial role in disrupting German infrastructure ahead of the Normandy invasion of June 1944. In the process, dozens of Canadian airmen are forced to bail out over occupied Belgium and France.

From D-Day, Tactical Air Force fighter-bombers played a pivotal role in Allied battlefield success; Canadian soldiers knew they could always “whistle for a Tiffy”.

The Dieppe assault of 19 August 1942 is the worst day in Canadian military history: in just 8 hours, 907 Canadians were killed. For 2,000 of their comrades, nearly three years of incarceration in German prison camps followed.

The Canadian stand against the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend immediately after D-Day allowed the Allies to switch to the offensive and truly begin the liberation of Europe.

The Canadian army played the pivotal role in closing the Falaise Gap and ensuring Allied victory in the Normandy Campaign in August 1944.

The Allies liberated Antwerp, the world’s largest deep-water port, on 4 September 1944, but it could only be accessed via the Scheldt Estuary, the perfect place for the Germans to make a stand.

In April and May 1945, the long-suffering Dutch people, enduring the German-imposed Hongerwinter famine, enthusiastically welcomed their Canadian liberators, establishing the intense connection sustained for 70 years.

In Normandy, June 6, 1944, a dozen Sherman tanks equipped with floats, the famous Duplex Drives (DD), leave their ship to swim to Omaha Beach... not all of them make it.

Twenty-six metres beneath the waves at the foot of the majestic Calvi Citadel in Corsica lies an American plane from the Second World War.

On June 6th 1944, Lieutenant-colonel Rudder’s Rangers company climbs the cliffs of the Pointe du Hoc in Normandy with the mission to destroy the German cannons.