Gun Battery; and the landings at Sword Beach, the farthest east of the five landing points. During the episode, Murray re-enacts a beach landing from a landing craft, wading up the beach in period kit and rifle. People Private Wally Parr, 22, of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, part of the attack on Pegasus Bridge Corporal Len Daniels, 22, of 9 Parachute Squadron RE, tasked with breaching the Merville battery defences Private John Roberts, 19, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, part of the first wave onto Sword Beach Equipment Airspeed Horsa Glider (static) Mk V LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), used in the re-enactment The Battle for Normandy In "The Battle for Normandy", Murray looks at the battles to secure the strategically valuable town of Caen, the vital port of Cherbourg Naval Base, and the allied resupply efforts. The episode looked in detail at the British 22nd Armoured Brigade's involvement in the Battle of Villers-Bocage, south of Caen, and the German counter-attack by the German tank commander Michael Wittmann. The episode also examined the Allied artificial Mulberry harbour installed at Arromanches, the American advance west to obtain the port of Cherbourg, and the Allied aerial bombing of Caen during Operation Charnwood. Finally, it examined Operation Goodwood, the Allied advance to Bourguébus Ridge beyond Caen to the east. People Harold Currie, 19, a Wireless Operator in a Cromwell tank involved in the fighting at Villers-Bocage Sapper George Batts, 18, involved in building the harbour at Arromanches Private Ed Manley, 19, of the American 101st Airborne Division, involved in the American breakout Andre Heintz, 24, a member of the French Resistance operating in Caen Gunner Les Dinning, 18, of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats), involved at Bourguébus Equipment A German wheeled 88mm gun used as an anti-tank weapon at Bourguébus The Push for Paris In "The Push for Paris", Murray covers the American breakout in Normandy, and the German failed counterattack Operation Lüttich, leaving the way open to Paris. The episode examined in detail the fighting around Mortain where the German counter-attack stalled, and the development of the Falaise pocket, in which the over-extended Germans became trapped in a pincer movement. It then traces the German attempts to escape under bombardment and Hawker Typhoon air attack through the 'Failaise Gap' between Argentan and Falaise into a funnel at Chambois, nicknamed 'the corridor of death' by the Germans, and ending with