![]() ![]() ![]() Now, though, he is wondering what he is doing parachuting into France on D-Day. James decided to join the army after his home town of Winnipeg staged a mock Nazi invasion. James McKay, 19 and Sam Tremblay, a Cree Indian, are in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion and about to jump into the midst of the invasion. ![]() Samira delivers the message, and is determined to find and help her mother escape her captors. ![]() Six hours before the invasion begins, mother and daughter are on their way to deliver an important message about the invasion to the Resistance when Kenza is arrested and taken into custody by the Nazis. Samira Zidane, 11, and her mother Kenza are French Algerians working in the French Resistance. But Dee wonders what Sid, a Jewish American, would think if he found out Dee's truth. Dee and Sid Jacobstein became friends right from the start in boot camp. Private Dee Carpenter is a 16-year-old who lied about his age to get into the Army, but since they needed soldiers, the Army looked the other way. Beginning just before dawn on June 6th, 1944 and ending close to midnight on the same day, Gratz weaves together six unrelated perspectives that bring the D-Day landings to life in all its chaotic, grim reality. ![]()
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