We've all seen the movies and read the books, but what must it have been like to live through the day?Well below, the embedded player contains the full day's radio broadcasts concerning the invasion. Note the confusion of the first reports - no one is sure if the landings are actually happening. But as the day went on listeners on the home front started to believe that the long awaited invasion of mainland Europe, designed to destroy the German war machine, had truly begun.
To anyone with even the vaguest interest in 20th-Century history these recordings are a truly an amazing archive. One hears in 'real time', moment by moment, the actual breaking news of the June 6 1944 D-Day landings--the beginning of the invasion of Europe by Allied Forces--just as CBS studios on the other side of the Atlantic received it. From rumor to the first (and accurate) reports by German (Nazi) wireless broadcasts, to shortwave radio news crossing the Atlantic, to the official Allied announcement of invasion, this cataclysmic and momentous event unfolds hour by hour with fission and thrill, and it is told to us by surprised and excited CBS announcers who were experiencing events firsthand.
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