I am a blind individual, it is awesome to hear an audio from the past, the commentator actually describes the comeback audio, very nice, is very descriptive of what’s happening in the actual moment that all this is happening. Thank you for putting this are you out there.
My dad landed at Normandie 6th June 44, top men never to have thier like again. To hear the same noise my dad must have heard knowing he was there somewhere very emotional. 🇬🇧🇬🇧
George Hicks had a portable recorder with him (very heavy, actually) and this was one of the only times the US Radio networks allowed a news recording to be played on the airwaves. On Murrow's recomendation, CBS rebroadcast this, as did NBC and Mutual. The true sounds of D-Day, the ONLY recorded sounds, actually. Very historic.
My mother's family were neighbors of George Hicks in Jackson Heights Queens. I always heard about Mr. Hicks growing up and hearing this recording finally is incredible.
I’m nine years old and people say I’m weird for listening and liking this kind of stuff. I’m known as the “Military nerd” in my class, other classes, the whole school probably. But this stuff is really interesting for me.
That's not weird at all. I was doing the same thing when I was your age. Now I'm 65 and I'm still doing it. Next week I'll be visiting France for the first time. I was in the 82nd Airborne Division a long time ago, so I'm looking forward to going to Ste Mere Eglise. You keep going like you are.
Wow wow wow. As a really keen history buff that gets so excited by anything that can immerse me in the past, I was content with just hearing the chatter, and the conversations in the background, that really humanised it. But then to hear the sounds of the battle as well, and the commentator so accurately detailing it was just incredible and quite an experience that brought the war closer to our time
This was on the night of June 6th, 1944, not with the initial morning invasion. Hicks got the recording flown to London. There, at the Blue Network office, it was broadcast that night in the United States at 11:15 p.m. Eastern War Time on the Blue Network; not long after, the recording was played over the other networks, CBS, NBC and Mutual.
I was always under the impression that the Luftwaffe had no planes in the sky that fateful night. Am I wrong in this because this amazing historic recording proves otherwise. This is an incredible piece of recording history. He puts us right with the invasion fleet. Just incredible.👍
IIRC, the Luftwaffe flew about 650 sorties on D-Day. By comparison, the allies flew around 21000 sorties on the same day. Clearly a lot were bombers, transports, glider tugs etc, but the disparity is very clear. There were swarms of allied fighters over the beaches and beyond, keeping most Luftwaffe sorties well away from the beaches.
This urban legend is because of the The Longest Day movie, I suppose. Germans had planes up in the sky, but the truth is that their numbers were no match for the Allies as Science Chap mentioned
I had a great uncle land at Normandy with the 17th Engineers and my grandfather fought across europe with the 83rd Infantry, mu other grandfather flew B-17s over europe and then B-29s in the Pacific, had another great uncle who fought qith the 2nd Marines in the Pacific and my grandmother was a WAC. I had the privledge and honor of talking wìth them all about their individual experiences during the war before they passes, some to a greater extent than others. I wish I had been wise enough to record them. Hwaring a live-action report of that day really brings home and makes a bit more personal, what they experienced and lived through. Being a vet myself, it is interesting to actually hear the sounds of that style of warfare as it is different than what I experienced but at the same time very familiar.
I just can't imagine watching this. So proud & grateful for all those who served & especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Just so hard to imagine what they all went through. And their families. God bless them all ❣️🇺🇲
Before some un named people realized it was on the web, there was audio from a vietnam ace who, apparently drunk, spoke his literal mind on the war, the missions, and general Cluster Fudge and Snafu being inflicted on him from DC. That audio seems to have been NSA'd. Still, IRL is IRL. Good stuff!
Can you imagine trying to report the war while surrounded by firing from all directions. Bless you men and women, we owe you a debt we can’t pay and you paid a debt you didn’t owe. Love.
Was the recording made the morning OF the invasion (June 6, 1944) BEFORE it happened, or the AFTER it? (Night of June 6/7). Because at the very end he says. “Now ten past 12 [midnight], the beginning of June 7, 1944.”
If you listen, he says it’s the evening of June 6th. If that’s the case, it would be the evening of our landing. We began our attack, landing, early on the morning of June 6th.
we've yet to see a German plane over the amphibious convoy, which doesn't necessarily mean that we shan't see them, before the attack is over. our air support has been fine, and the loud speakers call out almost constantly spitfires on the port, or mustangs overhead, or b17s passing on the starboard side. As far as I know no report has come in of attack by nazi seacraft, on the convoy. Ok i'm bored sorry lol
My God, what Hell. My dad-a Marine-was part of the second largest amphibious landing, on the island of Saipan….he was in charge of one of the amphibious tractors carrying the soldiers from ship to beach, and when the job was done, he fought in the battle. It was also Hell on Earth, ending after 29,000 Japanese soldiers had been killed, because they wouldn’t surrender. I cannot glorify war in any sense, and it sickens me that wars are started by insane old men who couldn’t care less about the teenagers and young men they send into the meat grinder.
This actual recording, is on an LP desk, in my local library, I heard it about 40 years ago, in my local library, Mountain View California to be exact.. LP stand for long playing record, that I went into the local library to check out.