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Brendan Fraser stars as General Dwight ‘Ike’ D Eisenhower in the D-Day drama Pressure. As supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, he had the huge responsibility of overseeing Operation Overlord. How close is the figure we see to the real man, asks Jonathan Wright?

In the Operation Overlord drama Pressure, Chris Messina stars as American meteorologist Irving P Krick, working on weather forecasts for the 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy. Confident and charismatic, Krick delivers his predictions with pizzazz – yet some of his colleagues doubt that he knows what he’s talking about. Does this unflattering picture reflect the real man, asks Jonathan Wright?

Fact and fiction blast into cinemas with Pressure, a gripping drama that focuses on the immediate buildup to Operation Overlord. Jonathan Wright unpicks the true story of the tense hours when meteorologists clashed over whether a storm was going to hit Normandy in early June 1944

Leading the cast in D-Day drama Pressure, Andrew Scott stars as James Stagg. Among the meteorologists advising Dwight D Eisenhower on whether to launch Operation Overlord, Stagg’s voice is the most important. Jonathan Wright asks: how close is the character on screen to the real man?

In the D-Day drama Pressure, Kerry Condon stars as Kay Summersby, US General Dwight D Eisenhower’s aide and driver. In the film she acts both as confidant to the general and a mediator between battling factions on his staff. But is the figure we see on screen anything like the real woman, asks Jonathan Wright?

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