When director Steven Spielberg was a teenager, he had a memorable encounter with his hero, the legendary John Ford. The aspiring filmmaker and the aging icon discovered they had something very special in common: a fascination with D-day.
Ford had been in charge of the camera unit at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, his mission to film the Operation Overlord invasion that landed 176,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy for the massive assault against the Germans occupying France. Yet somehow Ford's footage was lost until 1998, when Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and Reagan-era Assistant...
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