Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Release date: 2004-05-31
Votes: 48
Genres: Drama, War, History, TV Movie
The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.
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