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Beachhead and Breakthrough
August 11, 1949
Season 1 - Episode 15: Beachhead and Breakthrough
00:00 / 45:00
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.
Episode Information
TV Show
Crusade in Europe
Season
Season 1
Episode Number
15
Air Date
August 11, 1949
Guest Stars
E
Ernest J. King
Self (archive footage)
George C. Marshall
Self (archive footage)
Bernard Montgomery
Self (archive footage)
O
Omar N. Bradley
Self (archive footage)
B
Bertram Ramsay
Self (archive footage)
Henry H. Arnold
Self (archive footage)