Overview
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Cast
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Col. Thompson
U.S. Army Ranger
Madame Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Maj. Werner Pluskat
Mayor of Colleville
Flying Officer David Campbell