Posted on 06/06/2014 1:37:05 AM PDT by 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.
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.
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.
I always appreciate the effort you put in your interesting posts.
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.
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.
Didn't turn out that way.
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.
1230-CBS-Romance of Helen Trent
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
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
Thanks for all your great work, Homer.
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....
COOL! Thanks!
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.
1630-NBC-Fibber McGee and Molly D-Day Broadcast
1830-NBC News, Lowell Thomas Reporting
2000-NBC-Dr. Goldstein and Ginny Simms
2210- NBC-Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
2300-CBS-News and Analysis, with Ned Chalmer and Quincy Howe
Bump.
Back to the top. Most of the links still work, 5 years later. Links are at replies #2, 16, 28, and 33.
“12:37 Eastern Wartime...”
Back when all of America took warfare seriously.
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