D-Day Anniversary All Over the Tube : Television: Shows about the Allied landing in France will run on the networks as well as cable--and there will be plenty to pick among.

Programs about D-day will be exploding like a full-scale aerial attack in the coming weeks as television pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of the invasion that decisively changed the momentum of World War II.

There will be extensive coverage of events on the actual anniversary, June 6, but that will be the culmination of media focus. Here’s a guide to some of what’s on tap before then:

* PBS’ “The American Experience” series devotes an hour on May 25 to “D-Day,” a documentary by Charles Guggenheim.

* Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Dan Rather will host a two-hour “CBS Reports” on May 26, visiting the Normandy beaches where the Allied invasion of Europe began and talking with many of the Americans who fought there and with the sons of the commanding generals that day.

* Charles Durning, a participant in the assault on Omaha Beach, narrates “Normandy: The Great Crusade,” a two-hour documentary on the Discovery Channel May 30.

* George Stevens Jr. has put together footage shot by his father’s military film unit for “George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin,” airing May 31 on the Disney Channel.

* Peter Jennings will anchor a 90-minute edition of “Turning Point” on ABC June 1 that will interview veterans on both sides of the battle to reconstruct the planning and strategies that went into the attack.

* Charles Osgood will anchor “CBS News Sunday Morning” from Normandy on June 5, devoting the entire program to D-day. David Brinkley will do the same that day for his ABC show, “This Week With David Brinkley.”

* “Eye on History: D-Day,” produced by Lou Reda Productions with the cooperation of the U.S. Naval Institute, had its first A&E; outing May 18 and repeats June 5 at 1 p.m.

* CNN has scheduled an hourlong documentary, “D-Day: The Great Crusade,” for June 5, with Judy Woodruff anchoring and Lou Waters reporting. It features interviews with men on the front lines and the women working at home in the United States.