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D Day as it was reported live on American Radio
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| 06-06-1944
| NBC
Posted on 06/06/2019 9:41:19 AM PDT by NRx
Complete run of the live broadcasts on NBC Radio June 06, 1944.
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posted on
06/06/2019 9:41:19 AM PDT
by
NRx
To: NRx
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posted on
06/06/2019 9:46:04 AM PDT
by
knarf
To: NRx
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posted on
06/06/2019 9:47:53 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: NRx
“Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.”
“This ends the reading of Communique Number One, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.”
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posted on
06/06/2019 9:50:47 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: knarf
One of the greatest events in American and world history should be given a month of honor at all costs. Most of these men are around 100 years old.
This is where America is in 2019: June is "gay pride" month. I bet most could not define D-Day.
Let that sink in.
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:01:10 AM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: shanover
Millennials are being taught that the Soviets defeated Hitler single-handedly.
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:03:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: knarf
I always loved that photo.
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:28:15 AM PDT
by
mkleesma
(`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
To: zot; The Shrew
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:32:25 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: NRx
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:49:27 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: mkleesma
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:54:16 AM PDT
by
knarf
To: NRx
The thing that always strikes me when listening to the broadcasts, was the high quality of journalism back then as opposed to today.
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posted on
06/06/2019 10:56:07 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
If it were our media now they would have immediately pronounced the whole invasion as a ‘’quagmire’’.
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posted on
06/06/2019 11:19:48 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
To: jmacusa
Heck, today the June 5th edition of the NYT would have the headline: “Allies Set to Invade Normandy Tomorrow”
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posted on
06/06/2019 11:21:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
The thing that always strikes me when listening to the broadcasts, was the high quality of journalism back then as opposed to today. Great point. There's no apparent attempt to add, modify, or otherwise editorialize during reading of the news. There's only a single broadcaster--no assembly of a "forum" to discuss or "analyze" what the information means (or should mean) to its listeners.
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posted on
06/06/2019 12:38:14 PM PDT
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: jmacusa
Were Walter Cronkite at the scene, he would have said “we’ve lost”. He did about viet Nam and Tet, the bastard, and he singularly cost us many, many thousands of our young men’s lives.
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posted on
06/06/2019 3:46:40 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: Interesting Times
Thanks for the ping. I remember hearing some reports on the radio.
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posted on
06/06/2019 5:05:21 PM PDT
by
zot
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