The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
Season 1 • Episode 3: Wrath: D-Day-V-E-Day • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Wrath: D-Day-V-E-Day
February 19, 2003 • 55 min
The third episode focuses on the European theater during the months between D-Day, in June 1944, and V-E Day, in May 1945. Among the many scenes captured by color footage are the seizure, two days before D-Day, of a German U-boat carrying Enigma code machines; the massive Allied assault on the beaches at Normandy; the jubilant welcome received by G.I.s after the liberation of Paris; freed American POWs burning their prison; Red Cross "doughnut girls"; the first Jewish Sabbath service conducted at the just-liberated Dachau concentration camp; and V-E Day celebrations following Germany's surrender.
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