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In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.
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00:03Call General Eisenhower.
00:07Tiger was a training op.
00:09Dress rehearsal for D-Day.
00:12They walked right into it.
00:15One mistake.
00:18Just that one mistake.
00:19Ike, you have to stop doing this to yourself.
00:23What's done is done.
00:27Group Captain Dr. James Stagg
00:29Here at the express request to generalize now.
00:31Do we have a date yet for the invasion's out?
00:33D-Day is in 61 hours from now.
00:37This is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
00:41Fate of the war. Thousands of lives hinge on this.
00:45I need a forecast.
00:48Churchill tells me you're the best meteorologist in the country.
00:51Get me the latest readings from every single base within 2,000 miles of Normandy.
00:55The invasion's confirmed for Monday.
00:57Monday, Monday, Monday.
00:59But they weren't like this.
01:01We are faced with a succession of two aggressive storms.
01:05Are you absolutely certain?
01:07D-Day will be calm and sunny.
01:09I couldn't disagree with that more.
01:16If D-Day is cancelled, we will lose this war.
01:21The final decision on the timing of D-Day will be mine.
01:25And mine alone.
01:27If you invade tomorrow, they're going to be washed away.
01:32300,000 men with families that they may never see again.
01:38Why should I trust you?
01:40We must face the vast.
01:43The vast!
01:44However frightening they may be.
01:49If we delay, the enemy will be ready and waiting.
01:52They'll slaughter every single last one of us.
02:03The storms that I'm talking about are real.
02:08And the wrath of nature is real.
02:14No.
02:15Yeah.
02:19No.
02:21No.
02:23No.
02:23No.
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