If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day(2014)
A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
Movie: If I Don't Come Home: Letters from D-Day
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Elisabeth Bannerman
Maurice Hardstaff
Alastair Bannerman
Norman Skinner
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A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of D-Day, the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault.
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2014-06-01
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