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9-10-11 November 2002: TSA stages D-Day.
Tin Soldiers of Antwerp recreacted the operations on Sword Beach and around Merville-Franceville during a 3-day battle involving +10 players, dozens of ships, landing craft and aircraft, hundreds of vehicles and thousands of (20 mm) soldiers. Operations took place on a table measuring 9 m x 5 m, with all villages, fortifications and landmarks correctly scaled down. Quite a job, but great fun...

D-Day: Sword Beach & British airborne operations
The stage is set: during the night of 5/6th June 1944 DC3's are about to drop British para's near the Merville battery (visible in the top left corner, at the "10" of the burning village).	The "coup de main" by Major Howard's gliderborne troops: his Horsa gliders are just landing as close to the (Pegasus) bridge as humanly possible.	The bridge is taken! (and in the game, Lt Den Brotheridge survived). The first French house (the café Gondrée) has been liberated.
The beach near Ouistreham is still deserted. It is very early in the morning and not a living soul in sight...	... but unobserved by the Germans and close to the beach, a British torpedoboat takes up position.	The fog over the beach lifts - drifting inland - not only revealing the beach obstacles (that are supposed to stop the invasion), but also the lead Allied landing craft.
Finally, the invading armada is in full view of the beach and the German defences are softened up by naval gunfire from the escorting vessels.	The Allies hit the beach like a sledge hammer with everything they've got: infantry, armour and support vehicles are landing in force...	... but only thanks to the "Funnies" the troops are able to move inland, breaching the seawall.
At last , the Atlantikwall has been perforated: armour and transport are moving inland, past abandoned concrete defence works.	But the Germans are not defeated yet: the casino of Ouistreham and its gun are still in enemy hands (where is the French commando, Kieffer where are you!!!?).	The desperate Germans even launched a "Schnellboot" up the Orne canal to re-take Pegasus bridge, but the vessel was blown to pieces prior to reaching the objective. ALLIED VICTORY! at the end of 3 days gaming.
Some of "The Longest Day"-characters also played their part: amongst others, the fat German NCO on horseback, ...	... the bearded beachmaster with his bulldog, Bourvil on his bicycle, Lord Lovat etc.	This gentleman was kept "out of the picture": Rommel (in his staffcar) was not present on D-Day... (but came to have a look anyway).