D Day took place on the 6th June 1944 - and it truly was a day that shook the world. Over 130,000 allied troops in what is the biggest ever amphibious assault in history.

1. A short history of a day that changed the
world

2. What was D-Day ?

3. Film clip illustrating the withdrawal from Dunkirk

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S.
Churchill pictured in Washington (1943)
where they agreed to launch an invasion of
German-occupied Europe.

5. Diagram outlining the stages involved in the invasion.

6. Film clip illustrating the amphibious landings

7. American soldiers wade ashore.

8. Brigadier Nigel Poett (British Army)
Nigel Poett

9. George H. Burr

10. W. K. Newell