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France 1944. Battle weary sergeant, John Kaufman, leads his disillusioned squad on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. As events unfold and the reality of their situation becomes ever more apparent, the young squad begins to question their orders and sanity.
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.