Encore generally airs older films released between the 1960s to the 1990s, with some newer movie titles (usually broadcast between six to nine months after their premiere on Starz) interspersed throughout the day (mostly on Sunday nights, as of the summer of 2014).
June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
The Battle of Normandy was fought during World War II in the summer of 1944, between the Allied nations and German forces occupying Western Europe.he Army began to use the codes H-hour and D-Day during World War I, to indicate the time or date of an operation s beginning. So the D may simply refer to the day of invasion. With the invasion of Normandy, General Dwight D. Eisenhower faced a task of magnitude and hazards never before attempted.