Plan to liberate France swings into action 70 years ago this hour (June 5 1944)


Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 5/7' (June 5, 1944, 10:00 p.m. at 11:34)

(Monday, June 5, 1944, 10:00 p.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/4:00 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 1 day before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — The great plan to liberate France swings into action tonight as 13,000 British, American paratroopers are the first to go, to be dropped behind enemy lines ahead of the seaborne troops.


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