Compelling music and narration, but mixed up footage
This dvd set is actually not too bad, but it'll be an amalgamation of all the D-Day footage you've already seen. It does include some of the color footage that is featured in other sets, Capa's Omaha beach footage, german footage, etc. The narration is a reader's digest account of the landings.
The annoyance is the over use of the same "combat training" footage to overlap chronological gaps in the actual combat footage of the landings. The airborne operations practice footage is reused as footage of the actually deployment, but clearly it is in the daytime and too organized to be the actual drop. The same goes for infantry footage. The same trench training is shown as part of the invasion.
Overall, for the $5 I paid, not too bad. I would have been mad if I paid $10 though.
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