Information on our schedule and keep up with the latest history news. Each week, American History tv features archival films for it is by the u. S. Government, industry and Educational Institution is taking on a vivid journey into the american past. In england, general dwight d. Eisenhower and his deputy commanders chart the liberation of the lost continent. They plan when and where the the mighty armies of the United Nations will strike. Northern france is that battleground. To the building of their defense system, the socalled west wall, the nazis poured the slave labor up conquered nations, pictures made by the germans himself to impress their satellites with the strength and invincibility of their fortifications. Within steel and concrete emplacements for years in the making the germans have amassed , every known weapon of defense, but whether those weapons are enough to face the allied onslaught will be proven in the struggle that lies ahead. Here is the other side of the channel. Britain, an armed camp bristling tanks from the United States and canada. Here is the fruition of four years of planning and production or if you are the claims of england as the allied armies awaited dday. Locomotives built to run on continental railways, freight cars and tank cars to replace Rolling Stock destroyed by the germans. All this and more is included in the gigantic preparation for invasion. Here is something of the gigantic naval armada assembled to transport the allied armies across the english channel. Here is something of the ingenuity of allied engineers, assault boats and invasion barges launched directly from the decks of the ships that brought them to england. Week after week the fleet grew in numbers, steel ships of every description, ships expressly designed and constructed for the mission up upon which soon they were to send embark. Nothing was left to chance. Every loading operation was rehearsed and timed in advanced. Every soldier knew his station, every man knew just where he was to fit into the gigantic pattern. They boarded their ships, for all they knew they were bound for france or belgian, or wherever their commanders had decided to strike. Every keep, every tank, every piece of mobile equivalent was assigned its place in the grand strategy of attack. Then, on the fifth day of june, 1944, just as you see them here, a fleet of more than 4000 ships put out from england. This was dday, the fourth anniversary of the battle of dunkirk and the allied armies were striking back. The great fleet was underway. The morning of june 6, this was the battleground. Fierce fighting around caen. Vast squadrons of bombers and transports led the way, more than 11,000 planes spearheading the attack. Paratroopers landed in normandy behind the coastal defenses, landings made with timing and precision, perfected only through scores of rehearsals like this. Barges approach shore, ready for instant action, some bearing artillery and rocket guns already opening fire. [gunfire] today, just as in these scenes, the armies of the United Nations have made their first landings on the soil of western europe. Another of the great decisive battles of World History has been joined. This is the day for which free people long have waited. This is dday. [gunfire] the hardfought 2016 primary season is over, with the store conventions to follow this summer. Colorado, florida, texas, ohio. The firsthey novel politician in several decades. Watch live on cspan, listen of the cspan radio app or get video on demand at cspan. Org. You have a front row seat to every minute of both conventions on cspan, all beginning on monday, july 18. Welcome to provo on American History tv. Located 43 mile south of salt lake city, it is some to Brigham Young university with a population of 116,000. It is the thirdlargest city in utah. With