They were the best the United States had to offer and on June 6, 1944 their nation sent them through the gates of Hell in Normandy, France.

Narrated by 2012 Emmy Award-winner Damian Lewis, who played Richard D. Winters in HBO’s Band of Brothers.

The aviators, led by famed commander Lt. Col. James Harold Doolittle, had taken the fight directly to the enemy for the first time in World War II and delivered payback for Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Drone Filming at Pearl Harbor: The World War II Foundation is one of the very few organizations EVER to be allowed to put a drone up over the USS Arizona Memorial, USS Missouri, and Ford Island. The results of that work are amazing!

Two American 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) medics caught in a church in Normandy, France during the opening hours of D-Day.