Video: 'Operation Overlord & Neptune (D-Day documentary)' (June 6, 1944, 1:00 a.m. BDST at 8:00)

(Tuesday, June 6, 1944, 1:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/7:00 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); five hours before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — Allied aircraft carrying 23,400 American and British paratroopers approached Normandy, France, this morning for jumps behind enemy lines in preparation of today’s D-Day landings.