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us a king that changed the course of history. it inspired the painter that started a movement that took the art world by storm. claude monet never painted any water lilies. what?! yes! he painted the light on top of the lilies. whilst 80 years ago its coastline was at the forefront of a fight for freedom. i want to say an enormous thank you to all those who have taken part. it was a team effort. this is the region that's seen it all. and its stories have all been woven into the tapestry of time. whoa—ho! this is so cool! you have to release the rope... yeah, 0k. ..until the sail is...

..but if you come here and explore, you're going to fall in love with this part of france. it's the place that gave us a king that changed the course of history. it inspired the painter that started a movement that took the art world by storm. claude monet never painted any water lilies. what?! yes! he painted the light on top of the lilies. whilst 80 years ago its coastline was at the forefront of a fight for freedom. i want to say an enormous thank you to all those who have taken part. it was a team effort. this is the region that's seen it all. and its stories have all been woven ...

More recent history can still be felt today. 0njune 6th, 19114, 80 years ago, the d—day landings happened on a stretch of normandy�*s beaches. the objective of d—day was to secure a foothold in nazi—occupied europe. it was the largest naval, air and land operation in history. on that fateful summer's day, the allies used over 5,000 ships and landing craft to carry more than 150,000 troops to normandy�*s beaches, codenamed utah, 0maha, gold, juno and sword. 4,414 allied soldiers died on d—day itself. in 2021, the british

They had four men on shore for every three men we had approaching the shore," and yet he said in a characteristic understatement "we got on." the best estimate is the one-day death toll on that beach was 4,414. here now the story of just one of the veterans, jake larson, the last surviving member of his platoon. here's his memory of that day, as told to andrea mitchell. >> when we landed and i finally got out of that water, the water was up to my chin, and i found -- it just seemed like in front of me came this burl, and at that time two machine guns were shooting at me from two different angl...

Not all the landing units had been able to link up as of yet, and yet by the end of that first day, the allies had punched inland in a number of places, capturing entire towns along the way. but for that first 24-hour period, the beach was either the place where you died or the place where you survived. the great war cooperate ernie pyle famously said about the germans firing down from the hillside, "the advantages were all theirs. they had four men on shore for every three men we had approaching the shore," and yet he said in a characteristic understatement "we got on." the best estimate is t...