D-Day 6.6.1944 Page #3

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A diversion party will attack

the main gate here.

A Company will arrive in gliders

immediately prior to the initial assault.

At night, sir?

Of course.

- Where will they land, sir?

On top of it.

We knew it was going

to be big and important

and that we would be up at the front

of it. But it seemed so... impossible.

If we fail, the entire Allied left flank

could be decimated.

This mission is dangerous,

but it's crucial.

The imminent invasion

is the world's biggest story

and a magnet for the world's

biggest storytellers.

London felt like

the capital of the whole world.

It was the place to be,

especially if you were a journalist.

Everyone looked to Capa to be

the big-shot photographer for the invasion

because he had been covering war

ever since the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

Gotcha!

Bob had a sense of his own destiny,

which was tragic, in a way,

because his destiny was to...

to cover the world at its worst.

- I can't believe you're back.

- Of course I'm back.

I told the office

I hadn't seen my gal in seven months.

Well course I'm back.

You're a terrible liar.

OK, but I want to be with the boys

when they liberate my Paris.

I won't miss that.

Let's not talk about the war.

That's not what we're here for.

Pinky was not terribly serious,

except about lovemaking.

She was madly in love with Capa.

I thought you weren't wasting film.

Those guys are counting on me

to get the pictures of the big day.

Robert Capa,

humanitarian and war photographer.

I'm a gambler, not a humanitarian.

Humanitarians believe in humanity.

For me, it's just a matter

of drawing the right cards.

While Capa relaxes in London,

Rommel inspects the beach

the Allies have already codenamed "Omaha".

He is battling to reinforce

the Normandy beach defences

and place armoured divisions close inland.

After Rommel was here, we started

to think, "This is getting serious. "

Before that,

we were quite relaxed about it,

but suddenly there was Rommel saying,

"They'll come here. "

Move!

Bang! Let's go!

Come on, let's go!

Move! Move!

We had nine rehearsals by night and day.

They had to do it time and time again

until they were perfect.

Too slow! Too late!

If you hesitate, you could be shot.

And they understood that.

Come in from the right!

Where's that bloody flamethrower?

Idle bastards,

get in here!

The last time we did it, it was for real.

We had a tremendous

kind of gung-ho feeling.

OK, stop!

Back to the start!

It was different.

We're good. We're bloody good!

Not bloody good enough. Let's go!

Did you ask Washington

about landing craft?

They're thinking about it.

Perhaps we could tell them not to think,

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