Driving his jeep up one of the British invasion beaches, Al Murray joins the four surviving crew of a Bren gun carrier from the 1st Suffolk Regiment.
Al drives through bocage country with D-Day survivors from the 2nd Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Al meets the survivors. The Allies suffered few losses whilst decimating the 12th SS Panzer Division and killing the Wehrmacht's top commander.
Al visits rocket bunkers along the French and Belgian coast, and meets POWs who were forced to assemble Hitler's hi-tech weapons of mass destruction.
Al does a parachute jump with survivors of the 1st Parachute Brigade, who jumped from 1,500 aircraft and 500 gliders into the battle at Arnhem.
Al Murray talks to air crew who flew the bombers and fighter escorts and finds out what the famous `war bird', the Lancaster bomber, was like to fly.
Al Murray
Host
Ludo Graham
Producer
