The Complete 24 hour
radio broadcast of D-Day
This is the full 24 hour
broadcast from CBS world news from June 6th, 1944,
otherwise known as D-Day. Anyone interested in WW2
history will find this broadcast completely fascinating.
Listen to the radio as the events unfolded that day and
take yourself back in history as the US took control of
WW2.
The Normandy landings
(codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing
operations on Tuesday, June 6th, 1944 (termed D-Day) of
the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord
during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in
history, the operation began the liberation of
German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control,
and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western
Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months
leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a
substantial military deception, codenamed Operation
Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and
location of the main Allied landings. The weather on
D-Day was far from ideal, but postponing would have
meant a delay of at least two weeks, as the invasion
planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the
tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days in
each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German
forces and of developing fortifications along the
Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
This collection is all in MP3 format supplied on CD.
You play this in your computer and then can copy all the
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