The Americans on D-Day

The Americans on D-Day DVD from WW2 Reflections takes viewers through modern-day Normandy to show where Americans fought on "the longest day," from Omaha and Utah beaches to the streets of Ste. Mere Eglise, the battery at Longues Sur Mer, and the fields around Brecourt Manor and La Fiere Bridge.

The film features several nice touches. When a new scene begins, a digital clock appears briefly on the screen, showing the time of day or night when the action described was taking place on June 6, 1944. All scenes were shot at the time of day when those actions would have been occurring; thus, the church at Ste. Mere Eglise is shown in a night scene with the clock at 1:15 a.m. while von Seibold talks about paratroopers taking fire as they descended on the town, one of whom, Pvt. John Steele, was forced to play dead while dangling from his chute, which had snagged on the church steeple.

Running Tme: 44 min.