Tuesday, 6 June 1944 was barely an hour old when Major John Howard and the men of D Company, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, hurtled out of the night sky above Normandy. Behind them the largest invasion force ever to set sail was approaching the French coast. After four long and brutal years of Nazi occupation, the liberation of mainland Europe was underway – D-Day had begun.

Narrated by Paul Waggott Written by Robin Scott Elliot Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn A Goalhanger Podcasts Production

Cast; Mike Lyons Timothy Knutsen Micky Vee Thomas Mitchells Lukas Weschler Alex Figueiredo Carolyn Saint Pe Alexander Pinault Mustafa Bouanani Morrison James Karim Kronfli Darcey Ferguson Alex Magliaro Joel Emery Adam Jarrell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Release date

Lydbog: 8. november 2023