Video: 'Operation Overlord & Neptune (D-Day documentary)' (June 6, 1944, 1:00 a.m. BDST at 15:29)
(Tuesday, June 6, 1944, 1:30 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/7:30 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); five hours before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — The dreaded counterattack at the now Allied-controlled Pegasus Bridge in Normandy, France, began early this morning.