The D-Day Attacks

On June 6, 1944, the course of history changed forever on the wind-swept beaches of Normandy. But behind the massive maps and grand strategies were hundreds of thousands of individual stories of courage, terror, and sacrifice.

The Longest Day is a narrative history podcast that takes you beyond the textbooks and into the foxholes. Join us as we reconstruct the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, from the top-secret planning rooms of London to the chaotic midnight drops of the paratroopers and the harrowing dawn landings at Omaha and Juno.