The Internet Archives has recordings of the D-Day news reports… it is really interesting to hear the story develop on this Eightieth Anniversary of D-Day.
Topics OTR, OldTimeRadio, CBSNews, WorldWarII, CBS News, World War II, D-Day, June 6 1944
This upload contains CBS Radio's complete broadcast day for D-Day, June 6, 1944. Coverage begins in the early overnight hours on June 6, and continues into the early hours of June 7. The broadcast is broken into 24 hour-long segments. The professionalism, quality and integrity of the reporting is refreshing.
Eighty years ago, that means an 18 yo who was drafted would by 98!
By Joshua Berlinger, CNNJune 2, 2024At 99 years old, Jack Foy is considered the youngster among his group of friends that fought in World War II.But their advanced age isn’t going to stop them from making the transatlantic journey to honor their fallen comrades on the 80th anniversary of D-Day.On June 6, Foy – a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge – and his fellow American veterans will join dignitaries and heads of state from around the world to commemorate the approximately 160,000 Allied troops who, eight decades ago, carried out the largest seaborne invasion in human history.Foy told CNN that he has been to several memorials in France since 2014. The emotional resonance of each trip grows stronger year after year, he said, because these veterans know each trip could be their last.“We realize we’re getting to the end of our time,” Foy said.They are not alone.With major commemorations held every five years, organizers and government officials concede that this year’s event could be the last to involve living veterans, whose stories of the horrors of war have become particularly poignant given that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought a large-scale ground war back to Europe for the first time since 1945.
Please, please don't let it happen again... vote.
Too bad that a former president thinks all those men and women who served are "losers and suckers."
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