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To watch some of the ceremony today, later this morning with your family, you can get on you tube with your kids. you can listen to a podcast with your kids of original bbc broadcast of that day or fdr's speech or eisenhower's speech as well. you get a sense of the sacrifice, the commitment that our alliance made as they took on what seemed unwinnable, 150,000 troops storming the atlantic wall that seemed impenetratable at the time. >> but they did it. they did it. we'll continue to look at the live pictures at the american cemetery in normandy. the president's top trade adviser seems to giv...

Rommel to command that, he shifted troops from east to west at that time. >> they were formidable obstacles they put them in water that would deny ships the ability to land, they had mines in the water, the beaches were littered with obstacles. >> almost a solid wall of steel expirsteeland iron and guns. >> this was hitler's atlantic wall. stretched across northern france, and continued up the coast through norway. >> what the allies wanted is to keep those germans dispersed on the coastline, they would not be able to focus their effort in one place. >> the key to ensuring the invasion force w...

Shifted troops from east to west at that time. >> they were formidable obstacles they put them in water that would deny ships the ability to land, they had mines in the water, the beaches were littered with obstacles. >> almost a solid wall of steel expirsteeland iron and guns. >> this was hitler's atlantic wall. stretched across northern france, and continued up the coast through norway. >> what the allies wanted is to keep those germans dispersed on the coastline, they would not be able to focus their effort in one place. >> the key to ensuring the invasion force would face a

That conducted this amazing feet of arms, the main purpose for this was to neutralize the large anti-ship guns on the cliffs. >> they had these big casements. nothing's in them. >> jack burke trained in scotland to climb those steep cliffs. but when rough seas forced his boat to land, he went to pointe du hoc. german artillery fire was coming from the atlantic wall. >> they knocked those guns out. where was all that artillery coming from? not the pointe. >> gary stern purchased french land where he believes the artillery fire was coming from.

>> we could look at his career as an amazing story. the economy was a mess. above all hitler blamed all of the german problems on a relatively small minority of jews who lived inside the country. it was what hitler was telling and a lot of people were buying. hit her took his most charismatic general had a lot of experience fighting allies in north africa and put him in charge of building the atlantic wall. he through himself into the task. >> german news reals show him infecting massive guns and invulnerable concrete replacements reassuring the german audiences allies would be stopped. >> it ...