I say new-ish, because it's 11 years old. Explains Bayou Renaissance Man at his blog (where he directs to a newly posted youtube video of the documentary in its entirety):
Back in 2014, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, Jean-Christophe Rosé produced this 90-minute documentary for France Télévisions. It uses archival footage that was remastered and colorized, and is probably one of the best sources to understand what the run-up to D-Day involved (with training and other preparations) and the reality of combat on that day.
You can see my Dad very near the start at 1:50 in, and the footage is used again at the 15 minute mark. He was a combat engineer who landed on Omaha Beach, Easy Red, somewhere in the third wave. Anyway, here's the link to the documentary. Total run length is an hour forty.
I didn't have a tag to fit this post, but it calls for a new one: history. I'll be using this going forward, and will be adding it to a few older posts as I come across them.
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