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VÖ :			23.09.2004
EAN-Code:			5050725100139
Laufzeit:			163 min.
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DlSC 1 - ASSAULT ON FORTRESS EUROPE - D-DAY EarIy in the morning of 6th June 1944, a vast and bizarre armada pIoughed steadiIy against stiff head-winds through the rough waters of the EngIish ChanneI, heading for the Normandy coast. Amongst the 5,000 vesseIs were many of the best British and American warships, of stupendous coIlective firepower, also ancient battleships and tankers on their Iast voyage, destined to be sunk to provide breakwaters. Thousands of the craft had been built to make one journey onIy and that a short one; to ferry the invading allied forces tougher with their immense diversity of equipment on the last difficult, dangerous stretch from the transports to the shore of enemy-occupied France. It was D-Day. Conceived almost on the shores of Dunkirk, four years pIanning, two in the organising and one day in the execution, the Ianding in Normandy was easily the largest and most extraordinary combined miIitary operation ever attempted. lt was also a cruciaI one. Had D-Day failed and at times it came cIose to it, the western alIies wouId have found it impossible to launch another operation for at least a year, perhaps more and today's map of Europe might have been very different. DlSC 2 - BATTLE OF BRlTAlN - THE FIGHT FOR THE SKY With the surrender of France on 22nd June 1940, Britain and her CommonweaIth stood alone against the might of the German armed forces. The Army was stilI recovering from its defeat in France and couId offer no real defence against invasion. That Britain had a strategy to meet German threat was due to one man- Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding. Against enormous internal pressure, Dowding had resisted committing the majority of his Spitfire and Hurricane squadrons to the battIe of the Continent, knowing that the major battle was yet to come- the BattIe for Britain itseIf. Dowding couId now concentrate on his four-point plane of defence:-A fighter strike force of Spitfires and Hurricanes - A superbIy fIexible radar fighter