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D-Day Radio Thread – June 6, 1944
archive.org ^ | 6/6/44

Posted on 06/06/2014 1:37:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Great job HJS. Thanks for the detail, thanks for going that extra mile you put into this, and all your posts 70 + years. It IS very much appreciated.


21 posted on 06/06/2014 8:16:08 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

The long radio broadcasts are repeating the same things, and repeating the same speculation and spin over the same few facts, and repeating the same background information. In the meantime, a few pieces of new information trickle in, and is subject to the same repetitive “analysis.”

Other than having video, it appears that news coverage of major events has not changed a bit.


22 posted on 06/06/2014 8:34:38 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I always appreciate the effort you put in your interesting posts.


23 posted on 06/06/2014 11:10:34 AM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson; colorado tanker; Tax-chick

The start of the 0900 NBC broadcast calls the invasion “the most closely guarded secret of the war.”

Well, the most closely guarded secret the reporter knows of, anyway. I think the Japanese will learn of a more “closely guarded secret” next August. And the world won’t learn of another really well guarded secret until about 1980 or so.


24 posted on 06/06/2014 11:41:37 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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A few years ago, I listened to the entire day....I just sat back and imagined how it must have been back then, before anyone really knew if it would succeed or not, and how anxious everyone listening must have been.


25 posted on 06/06/2014 11:44:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: henkster; Homer_J_Simpson; Tax-chick
I learned in the last couple of years or so that Darryl Zanuck, who produced The Longest Day, intended it as an anti-war movie, that if people knew how bloody awful that battle was the American people would never go to war again.

Didn't turn out that way.

26 posted on 06/06/2014 11:57:34 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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I’ve been listening to it off and on while at work today. (Good thing I can pretty much do what I want at work). But having read Homer’s daily NYT posts, I’ve gotten a sense of the tension built up before invasion. As I’d posted earlier, just hearing the phrase “began landing on the northern coast of France” sent chills up my spine, and brought a tear to my eye.

I’m sure the American people were plenty anxious about this. They must feel that the war is being decided today, even though the war was already decided in many ways long before today.

Homer, all of your efforts are really appreciated today. If your project was intended to recreate what it was like to endure the war, you’ve succeeded quite well.

I think I’ll watch the first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan tonight.


27 posted on 06/06/2014 12:03:14 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
1200-CBS-Kate Smith Speaks – Prayer for Our Troops

1230-CBS-Romance of Helen Trent

1245-CBS News broadcast

1255-CBS News, Quincy Howe Reporting

1300-CBS News, John Daly Reporting

1300-NBC News Report from London

1500-CBS News-King George VI on D-Day

1630-NBC News broadcast

Here is another batch of June 6 radio clips that don’t have time stamps.

BBC-John Snagge Repeats Communique #1

D-Day Message to Free French Troops

Eisenhower’s D-Day Broadcast to Western Europe

NBC-Ronald Coleman Delivers Poem and Prayer for Invading Army, by Edna St. Vincent Millay

U.S. D-Day Bulletin on Landing Success

28 posted on 06/06/2014 12:04:00 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Thanks for all your great work, Homer.


29 posted on 06/06/2014 12:14:48 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Reference at 3:45 on the 1630 NBC Broadcast to a group of paratroop commandos who called themselves the “Filthy 13.”

Tweak it a little and you could have a great movie concept....


30 posted on 06/06/2014 1:21:21 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

COOL! Thanks!


31 posted on 06/06/2014 1:22:29 PM PDT by uncitizen
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No, it sure didn’t. At least there was a point to this invasion. Our current administration will only commit troops to save Moslems from homophobia.


32 posted on 06/06/2014 3:35:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When the truth finally dawns, it dawns in fire!)
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
1800-CBS News broadcast

1630-NBC-Fibber McGee and Molly D-Day Broadcast

1830-NBC News, Lowell Thomas Reporting

1915-CBS-The Passing Parade

2000-NBC-Dr. Goldstein and Ginny Simms

2130-CBS News Broadcast

2200-CBS-FDR D-Day Prayer

2200-NBC-Bob Hope Show

2200-NBC-FDR D-Day Prayer

2210- NBC-Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians

2300-CBS-News and Analysis, with Ned Chalmer and Quincy Howe

33 posted on 06/06/2014 5:59:46 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Bump.


34 posted on 06/05/2018 9:08:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Back to the top. Most of the links still work, 5 years later. Links are at replies #2, 16, 28, and 33.


35 posted on 06/06/2019 12:38:47 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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“12:37 Eastern Wartime...”

Back when all of America took warfare seriously.


36 posted on 06/06/2019 12:53:13 PM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

D-Day radio links. Now at ten years later.


37 posted on 06/06/2024 7:55:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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