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156,000 British, American and Canadian soldiers are transported across the English Channel in the largest seaborn invasion ever attempted. [Sir Mike] It's an almost unimaginable scale now to put a huge army across the Channel against a defended shore.

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156,000 British, American and Canadian soldiers are transported across the English Channel in the largest seaborn invasion ever attempted. [Sir Mike] It's an almost unimaginable scale now to put a huge army across the Channel against a defended shore.

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Play 156,000 British, American and Canadian soldiers are transported across the English Channel in the largest seaborn invasion ever attempted. [Sir Mike] It's an almost unimaginable scale now to put a huge army across the Channel against a defended shore.

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[narrator] August 6th, 1945. Almost three months after victory. over Nazi Germany was declared. American forces remain locked in deadly combat with the Japanese. [explosions] In the Pacific, the war is far from over. [explosions]

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[narrator] August 6th, 1945. Almost three months after victory. over Nazi Germany was declared. American forces remain locked in deadly combat with the Japanese. [explosions] In the Pacific, the war is far from over. [explosions]

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Play [narrator] August 6th, 1945. Almost three months after victory. over Nazi Germany was declared. American forces remain locked in deadly combat with the Japanese. [explosions] In the Pacific, the war is far from over. [explosions]

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[narrator] After years of pressure from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. has finally agreed to open a second front in Europe, and send Allied troops to liberate occupied France. From there, they will fight their way. across to Germany, and with the Red Army advancing from the east, finally bring down Hitler's fascist empire. The success of D‐Day will allow. a total of two million Allied troops and nine million tonnes of armaments and supplies to be landed...

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[narrator] After years of pressure from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. has finally agreed to open a second front in Europe, and send Allied troops to liberate occupied France. From there, they will fight their way. across to Germany, and with the Red Army advancing from the east, finally bring down Hitler's fascist empire. The success of D‐Day will allow. a total of two million Allied troops and nine million tonnes of armaments and supplies to be landed...

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Play [narrator] After years of pressure from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. has finally agreed to open a second front in Europe, and send Allied troops to liberate occupied France. From there, they will fight their way. across to Germany, and with the Red Army advancing from the east, finally bring down Hitler's fascist empire. The success of D‐Day will allow. a total of two million Allied troops and nine million tonnes of armaments and supplies to be landed...

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[narrator] And yet, just three months later, the Big Three's optimism will turn to despair, as the Allies attempt to bulldoze their way as quickly as possible across Europe, comes to a grinding halt. [Iwan] Operation Market Garden, an attempt to end the war by Christmas, turned into one of the great military disasters of World War II, with the so‐called "bridge too far." [narrator] Operation Market Garden will lead to 17,000 Allied casualties, as well as thousands more dead and wounded...

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[narrator] And yet, just three months later, the Big Three's optimism will turn to despair, as the Allies attempt to bulldoze their way as quickly as possible across Europe, comes to a grinding halt. [Iwan] Operation Market Garden, an attempt to end the war by Christmas, turned into one of the great military disasters of World War II, with the so‐called "bridge too far." [narrator] Operation Market Garden will lead to 17,000 Allied casualties, as well as thousands more dead and wounded...

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Play [narrator] And yet, just three months later, the Big Three's optimism will turn to despair, as the Allies attempt to bulldoze their way as quickly as possible across Europe, comes to a grinding halt. [Iwan] Operation Market Garden, an attempt to end the war by Christmas, turned into one of the great military disasters of World War II, with the so‐called "bridge too far." [narrator] Operation Market Garden will lead to 17,000 Allied casualties, as well as thousands more dead and wounded...

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While the President is enjoying  Sunday lunch at the White  House, an Imperial Japanese  strike force torpedoes America's Pacific Fleet  stationed at Pearl Harbour. in Hawaii. In a matter of minutes,  Roosevelt's hopes. of staying out of the war  are destroyed. An aerial assault  by the Japanese. and a land invasion  by a supposed ally have caught Roosevelt and  Stalin  completely by surprise. Now these ideologically  opposed leaders. need to somehow work together if they're to have  any hope...

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While the President is enjoying  Sunday lunch at the White  House, an Imperial Japanese  strike force torpedoes America's Pacific Fleet  stationed at Pearl Harbour. in Hawaii. In a matter of minutes,  Roosevelt's hopes. of staying out of the war  are destroyed. An aerial assault  by the Japanese. and a land invasion  by a supposed ally have caught Roosevelt and  Stalin  completely by surprise. Now these ideologically  opposed leaders. need to somehow work together if they're to have  any hope...

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Play While the President is enjoying  Sunday lunch at the White  House, an Imperial Japanese  strike force torpedoes America's Pacific Fleet  stationed at Pearl Harbour. in Hawaii. In a matter of minutes,  Roosevelt's hopes. of staying out of the war  are destroyed. An aerial assault  by the Japanese. and a land invasion  by a supposed ally have caught Roosevelt and  Stalin  completely by surprise. Now these ideologically  opposed leaders. need to somehow work together if they're to have  any hope...

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[ominous music] [narrator] The morning of Sunday  the 7th of December, 1941, would change history. A date which will live in infamy.

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[ominous music] [narrator] The morning of Sunday  the 7th of December, 1941, would change history. A date which will live in infamy.

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Play [ominous music] [narrator] The morning of Sunday  the 7th of December, 1941, would change history. A date which will live in infamy.

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So, Churchill was willing to be flexible. in the tradition of geo strategic politics, global politics, and even if that meant working with someone who you didn't necessarily like very well, he understood that ultimately a Nazi Germany represented a greater threat than the Soviet Russia.

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So, Churchill was willing to be flexible. in the tradition of geo strategic politics, global politics, and even if that meant working with someone who you didn't necessarily like very well, he understood that ultimately a Nazi Germany represented a greater threat than the Soviet Russia.

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Play So, Churchill was willing to be flexible. in the tradition of geo strategic politics, global politics, and even if that meant working with someone who you didn't necessarily like very well, he understood that ultimately a Nazi Germany represented a greater threat than the Soviet Russia.

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[narrator] During 1943, debate over the timing of a western invasion of mainland Europe had come close to breaking the Grand Alliance. With his forces sustaining colossal losses in the east, Stalin was impatient for a second front. to be opened in Western Europe without delay. Churchill, however, preferred an attack. through the Mediterranean via Sicily and Italy, Europe's soft underbelly. Roosevelt was caught in the middle, but ultimately backed Stalin, in return for the Soviet leader's...

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[narrator] During 1943, debate over the timing of a western invasion of mainland Europe had come close to breaking the Grand Alliance. With his forces sustaining colossal losses in the east, Stalin was impatient for a second front. to be opened in Western Europe without delay. Churchill, however, preferred an attack. through the Mediterranean via Sicily and Italy, Europe's soft underbelly. Roosevelt was caught in the middle, but ultimately backed Stalin, in return for the Soviet leader's...

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Play [narrator] During 1943, debate over the timing of a western invasion of mainland Europe had come close to breaking the Grand Alliance. With his forces sustaining colossal losses in the east, Stalin was impatient for a second front. to be opened in Western Europe without delay. Churchill, however, preferred an attack. through the Mediterranean via Sicily and Italy, Europe's soft underbelly. Roosevelt was caught in the middle, but ultimately backed Stalin, in return for the Soviet leader's...

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You could make the argument that he experienced. the failure of an amphibious landing in the First World War, and he didn't want to relive it again in France in the Second World War.

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You could make the argument that he experienced. the failure of an amphibious landing in the First World War, and he didn't want to relive it again in France in the Second World War.

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Play You could make the argument that he experienced. the failure of an amphibious landing in the First World War, and he didn't want to relive it again in France in the Second World War.