Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 2/7' (May 30, 1944, at 12:13)

(Tuesday, May 30, 1944, 9:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/3:00 a.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 7 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — The American 82nd Airborne have reached their final staging post at Cottesmore airfield in the English Midlands by today for the upcoming invasion of Europe. 

Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 3/7' (May 30, 1944, continues at :00)