"This is a film entirely about veterans," says Charles Wheeler about his two-part documentary. "There are no historians, no pundits. All the people in the film, including me, are Normandy veterans."
Wheeler describes his personal experiences of the first 24 hours of Operation Overlord and talks to French civilians as well as British and German servicemen, some of whom revisit the sites where they lost friends and experienced the most intense moments of their lives. By talking to the people who were there, he gives a vivid and dramatic picture of what it was really like to be in Normandy in June 1944 when the liberation of western Europe began.
The second part, The Battle for Normandy, can be seen tomorrow at 9.55pm.
Producer Mark Fielder ; Executive producer
PeterSymes