Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Alun Gwynne Jones, John Johnston and Richard Dimbleby reflect on the planning of D-Day.

Dimbleby interviews Group Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser, who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion from the 5th to the 6th of June.


Clip taken from The Hour Approaches: Eve of D-Day, originally broadcast on BBC One, 5 June, 1964.





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