And more sound from the events that defined the times.
(SOUND: General Dwight Eisenhower after the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944)
DWIGHT EISENHOWER: "People of Western Europe: a landing was made this morning on the coast of France by troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force."
General Dwight Eisenhower.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER: "This landing is part of a concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe."
Some of the first assault troops to hit the beach of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 take cover behind enemy obstacles to fire on German forces as others follow the first tanks through the water toward the German-held shore during World War II
One of our programs, on the D-Day invasion during World War Two, was a finalist for most creative radio feature in the twenty-eleven Association for International Broadcasting Media Awards:
(SOUND: Excerpt from Nation #193]
On June fifth, nineteen forty-four, a huge Allied force waited for the order to invade German-occupied France.
All eyes turned toward Eisenhower. The decision was his. His face was serious. And for a long time he was silent. Finally he spoke. "OK," he said. "We will go."
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