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To: TonyInOhio

Was just going to post that link...I always try to imagine what it was like to hear those broadcasts back then, without knowing what the outcome was going to be.


5 posted on 06/05/2012 9:49:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Was just going to post that link...I always try to imagine what it was like to hear those broadcasts back then, without knowing what the outcome was going to be.

It really is treasure; don't miss the second hour and the description by Wright Bryan of NBC News who flew with a stick of paratroopers into Occupied France; I listen to it every year, and every year, I have a lump in my throat when he finishes his broadcast.

I made friends with an older gent, a soldier of the 506th PIR who jumped into Normandy on D-Day; he told me that he weighed 105 pounds when he left the C-47 and was carrying about 110 pounds of equipment. :) Alas, he's gone now, but I think of him every June.

8 posted on 06/05/2012 9:56:04 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (The dice are on the table. It is hot in Suez.)
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