What do you think of the D-Day Recordings?
To anyone with even the vaguest interest in 20th-Century history these recordings are 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.
Is this CBS D-Day broadcast worth a watch?
This CBS D-Day broadcast, together with its NBC equivalent--also on the Internet Archive, are probably the most important archives of their type that I have yet come across; I'd thoroughly recommend them to everyone, especially teenage school kids and those of an age who might be considering a military career**.
How many died on D-Day?
By day's end, thousands more of Gillingham's buddies had also succumbed to the massacre. There were up to 10,000 D-Day casualties, 116th Regiment alone sustained 797 (KIA: 349, WIA: 422 and MIA: 26). Words just cannot depict such hell.
How was the news of the Normandy landing reported throughout day?
The shared aspect of these programs is the news of the Normandy landing reported throughout the day. In the early hours, news came only from German sources, no confirmation offered by the American military or America's allies. Later, the Allies issue bulletins.
What is D short for in D-Day?
In other words, the D in D-Day merely stands for Day. This coded designation was used for the day of any important invasion or military operation.
Why was D-Day a failure?
All the careful planning, specially designed vehicles, and months of training couldn't save the thousands of men who lost their lives that morning. Planes dropped 13,000 bombs before the landing: they completely missed their targets; intense naval bombardment still failed to destroy German emplacements.
What is D-Day real name?
Operation OverlordThe Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
How cold was the water on D-Day?
It was cold, miserably cold, even though it was June. The water temperature was probably forty-five or fifty degrees.
What was Hitler's reaction to D-Day?
Hitler was not angry, or vindictive – far from it. He seemed relieved. Goebbels thought the German leader looked as if a great burden had fallen from his shoulders. He had earlier said Normandy was a possible landing site, for one thing.
Could Germany have stopped D-Day?
German troops could not travel on roads by day for fear of being strafed by omnipresent Allied fighters. The French rail network had been shattered by months of Allied bombing. German reinforcements that should have taken days to reach the front took weeks.
What did Churchill think about D-Day?
Of course, Churchill was not opposed to the D-Day landings per se, but he was opposed to them in isolation. It was partly about defending the British position in the Mediterranean, no doubt it was also about laurels for the British army who had the overall command in Italy.
How many D-Day veterans are still alive?
More than 9,000 troops were killed or wounded in the D-Day invasion. Far fewer than that are still alive now. The National D-Day Memorial website estimated that fewer than 3,000 veterans of D-Day were still living in 2021.
How many survived the first wave at Omaha Beach?
D Day at Omaha afforded no time or space for such missions. Every landing company was overloaded by its own assault problems. By the end of one hour and forty-five minutes, six survivors from the boat section on the extreme right shake loose and work their way to a shelf a few rods up the cliff.
What was the bloodiest beach on D-Day?
Omaha BeachCasualties on Omaha Beach were the worst of any of the invasion beaches on D-Day, with 2,400 casualties suffered by U.S. forces.
Was it raining during D-Day?
You can never downplay the importance of D-Day in bringing World War II to an end. One can only imagine how much worse the invasion would have gone had Eisenhower decided to leave on the 4th while a cold front whipped up heavy rain and strong winds along with very high seas and low visibility.
What was the average age of soldiers on D-Day?
26∎ The average age of an American soldier on D-Day was 26. As the war continued and more manpower was needed, nearly half of all American troops fighting in Europe would be teenagers.