Crusade in Europe
tv show

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Beachhead and Breakthrough
Season 1 - Episode 15 - 0h 0m
Air Date
August 11, 1949
Overview
Eisenhower inspects the landing beaches and we see the "Mulberry" harbors put in place along the Normandy beaches. Airfields are built and supplies offloaded. V-1 rockets attack London. We see Germans build the V-2 rockets. Storms wreck a Mulberry harbor and damage the other. Cherbourg is taken, but is wrecked by the Germans. The British and Canadians work to take Caen. Operation Cobra is launched to break out of Normandy.
Guest Stars
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Ernest J. King
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Self (archive footage)
George C. Marshall
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Self (archive footage)
Bernard Montgomery
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Omar N. Bradley
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Self (archive footage)
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Bertram Ramsay
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Self (archive footage)
Henry H. Arnold
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J. Lawton Collins
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Self (archive footage)