The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage resistance and carry out sabotage behind enemy lines. This text shows how in the face of extreme danger and personal risk this select band of men and women helped tilt the conflict in the Allies' favour.

A powerful history of the one of the most remarkable days in British military history, told by those who were there.

6 June 1944: Allied forces cross the Channel and begin fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Europe.
"Bullets just came at you like raindrops. You could hear them whistling and passing you and hitting the ground near you but you just kept going on." --Private William Edward Lloyd, 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
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