D-Day Radio Thread – June 6, 1944

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

I will be posting radio broadcasts throughout the day. A time stamp is embedded in the url address for most of the recordings. At about 8 ½ minutes into the 0330 CBS broadcast Robert Trout mentions that they began a tour of the CBS studio at “3 o’clock in the morning – 35 minutes ago.” So that marks the time stamps as Eastern War Time, equivalent to today’s Eastern Daylight Time. Normally that is 5 hours earlier than London and Normandy time, but in 1944 England was on British Double Daylight time. That makes for a 6 hour difference between London and New York. In other words, ALL TIMES E.S.T. - HJS.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

0300-Unconfirmed (German) reports of invasion

0330-Communiques #1 – John Snagge, BBC

0330-CBS News broadcast

0332-NBC News broadcast

0400-NBC News broadcast

0415-CBS News broadcast

0415-NBC News broadcast

0500-CBS News broadcast

Your title here

[Homer_J_Simpson]

That last one is supposed to say “0540 - CBS News broadcast.”

[Pontiac]

Bump for later.

[alfa6]

BTTT

And thanks for the thread Homer, will get back to it this afternoon.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[fso301]

Hmm? I wonder how the allies are dealing with the German cross channel guns at Pas de Calais? They could really inflict serious damage to the invasion fleet. Weather reports yesterday were poor so perhaps commanders are hoping the fleet will be hidden from those big guns by rain and fog?

[not2be4gotten.com]

ping

[Larry Lucido]

Bump

[ArmstedFragg]

The 4:15 NBC link is the famous “Snooty” broadcast, first report from a correspondent who’d been with the initial Paratroop attack. That C47 is still around.

[ken5050]

Homer....awesome job.....than ks and kudos!!!I’ll be “listening” all day..

[ken5050]

That’s an amazing report..clear, concise...the amount of information he provides is staggering...the guy (Wright Bryan) is a consummate pro.

[ken5050]

Good morning..

I stumbled across this:

http://www.speakingofradio.com/those-were-the-days-encore/

Seems to be the complete broadcast day....

Best,

Ken

[Faith65]

Thank you for posting this!

BOOKMARK!!

[4everontheRight]

That is fantastic history....thank you so much Homer.

[God luvs America]

bump for later listening...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

0900-CBS World News Today

0900-NBC News broadcast

0927-CBS News broadcast

0930-NBC News broadcast

1000-CBS Valiant Lady program – Buy War Bonds

1015-CBS-Light of the World

[henkster]

...began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France...

Sent chills up my spine.

[shoedog]

this is awesome!! thank you for doing this!!

[dfwgator]

This is the site I found with the complete day

https://archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day

[henkster]

16:30 on the 0330 CBS Broadcast, the reporter from England says that while he had bristled at the censorship, “my loyalty and responsibility to you back home is overridden by my loyalty and responsibility to the soldiers on this boat.”

That’s a line that should be etched in stone at the entrance of every journalist’s office, and should be the opening of every college journalism textbook.