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Ike: Countdown to D-Day

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The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

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Cast

Tom SelleckJames RemarTimothy BottomsGerald McRaneyIan MuneBruce PhillipsJohn BachNick BlakeKevin J. WilsonChristopher James BakerDavid MackieCarole Seay

Director

Robert Harmon

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