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Hearing is like this genuinely have me shivers. Imagine a war going on for this long, and on the radio you hear "landing Allied armies this morning on the coast of France"....landing in the place cut off from the rest of the world for the last 5 years.
@@topeka088 The modern US is founded on genocide of Native Americans. That's just one tiny thing out of the many things the US and Britain has done. Don't you dare
@@frenzalrhomb6919 I was kind of referring to the entire structure of the Soviet state. A good literary example of what I mean is the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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In loving memory of my dad's cousin, Normand Chartier, combat medic, US 4th Infantry Division, Utah Beach. He made it all the way to Germany and survived the war. He passed a few years ago and he was one of the kindest men I ever met.
@@vincentlefebvre9255 yes he was, in my home city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In fact my whole family is French Canadian, and he spoke fluent French. He was effectively an interpreter for his division, and while in Normandy, he once had to explain to a mother in French that there was nothing they could do for her injured son she had carried to their medical tent. The boy had been shot through the gut. It must have gutted my cousin Normand to be the only one who could communicate to the mother the awful news in French.
@@papaguy2001 The French in those days having no clue about the French Canadian accent, she surely thought that it was how American accent sounded when they speak French.
@@WorldWarTwo thanks so very much for your kind words. His passing was poignant for my family and we miss him dearly, but we take comfort in our memories of all he did in his life. Thanks for all you do to keep the memory of veterans like my cousin Normand alive.
@@HontasFarmer80 As someone who’s been following following the Russo-Ukrainian War, I can only guess it’s how I felt hearing about the sinking of the Moskva, the Kherson Offensive, and the incursion into Belgorod all combined times 100.
Some of those witnesses were just too little to understand the significance. I was only about two and a half at that time, but I can still remember visiting my grandmother, and watching out of her window an endless column of hundreds and hundreds of military vehicles rumbling south towards the English coast. D-day must have happened just a few days later.
Researchers at the Eisenhower Presidential Library recently uncovered a speech General Eisenhower never had to give ... but it was ready. In it he says the failure of the Normandy invasion is his sole responsibility, no one else is to blame.
Or in modern times, random people on Twitter. Famously the operation to kill Osama bin Laden was live tweeted by a Pakistani man that lived in the same city.
Bletchley Park had decoded intercepts very early in the morning stating paratroopers were landing in the Past de Calais area. We know now those paratroopers were the half sized fakes.
For some reason I cried. This series really made me feel the magnitude of the horror of this war and for that I thank you. Just after Stalingrad, I asked my grandmother, who was I think about 19/20 at the time and lost her boyfriend on the hood "did you know how bad it was? because to me it looks like you must have though you were going to lose." She said "we didn't really know, they didn't tell us" - which I'm aware of, but I can't help feeling a lot of older people, soldiers (like my late grandfather, a linguistics teacher and signals officer) would have known the true meaning of the Nazis overrunning all of eastern Europe, france, the fall of Singapore and the threat to Egypt etc etc... And just not said it to the nice red cross girl putting ice on their child's head from the beam that fell on them in the bombing. The sheer sense of relief that Stalingrad, el Alamein, the landings in Italy, would have produced. This announcement must have told people not only would the world not be fought to a standstill and the Nazis domination of Europe be accepted, but that this would all be over one day, maybe soon. I wonder today how my grandmother's personal naivety, yet trust in authority was shaped by her experience in her politically formative years fighting a horribly necessary war under a government operating total information control and having to desperately marshal an empires population. This shows me the value, not just in detail but in *understanding* of this format. I think about how much all the people who've seen this series have been through, grown, over the least five years. For people at the time, their whole lives were shaped and dominated for so long by their mobilisation towards total war. Nothing before has truly shown me that made me feel that shared feeling towards them. Thank you all.
How exciting that must have been. I notice they don't say where on the northern coast of France. They wanted to keep the ruse of landing at Calais going as long as possible.
When this channel goes over the war in Italy, all I can think of is, "What was going through grandfather's head this whole time?" He lived Northeast of Rome along the coast making rope for the Italian Navy. I still have his immigration papers, it amazes me that even in the chaos of war, Italy's government remained intact. Here I am, first generation American borne, recently retired from the USAF.
Thank you for this historic broadcast. I am hoping to get the 6th of June off work to follow the hour by hour coverage of D-Day. My mother, who was in the WRAF at the time, had her 22nd birthday on D-Day 1944.
The start of Medal of Honor: Frontline with Eisenhowers speech never ceases to give me goosebumps. I recommend everyone watch it before this D-Day special kicks off!
I have been following the team from the beginning since The Great War and have been through a lot of good and not so good things since then. I moved to France and a lot of struggling (mainly financial) didn't allow me to support the channel as I wanted.However, everyday I walk by several WW2 memorials and I always think about this whole project, how important it is and the lessons we need to learn from history. Today I am happy not only because I don't have to think if I have to skip lunch or dinner to make it until the end of the month, but also because I am finally able to become a contributor and help this project becoming reality! As long as I have the means, I will support this channel in any way and thanks for all the work WW2/TGH team!
This gives me goosebumps. Just this single sentence ".Under the command of General Eisenhower [...] began landing [...] on the northern cost of France." Just this one single terse statement. And yet it meant so much to so many people. Can't wait to watch the series.
Imagine being a French citizen and (somehow) hearing this. If you were in the Resistance, you were already heading for the door to go make some poor Jerry’s day miserable. If you weren’t, you probably felt hope swell within you. The nightmare would soon be over.
You’re right. The strangest thing to me is how the losing side clung to battle in lieu of capitulation. Six years ago my wife and I strolled through an Austrian town and came upon a cemetery full of crosses adorned with German helmets on top. About twenty soldiers lost from that one village. The chilling thing was how almost all of them died in April of 1945, and how most of them were around 20 years of age. Senseless. All those young men, forever 20 years old in their parents’ and siblings’ minds. Horrible.
Reading these comments, I'm glad I'm not the only one with goosebumps and shivers. I finished watching it about 5 minutes ago, am reading comments, and they won't stop. Truly one of the most important moments in all of recent history.
“Soldiers, sailors, and airmen….of the Allied Expeditionary Force….you are about to embark upon the great crusade….towards which we have striven these many months….”
Lots of ulcers, bitten fingernails, and most certainly, cigarettes back home -- not a good time to have a noisy neighbor dog interrupting broadcasts. I look forward to the coverage.
My mother worked at SHAEF Southwick House near the coast. She was a coder for the Wrens. Eisenhower was there everyday and the Wrens were locked down the 2 weeks prior to DDay. Exciting times. The Wrens were on the continent 3 weeks after DDay & provided communication support to the British army forces as they drove through France, Belgium, Holland & Germany.
I wish warn news was announced the same way now. There's too much question and answer from the press. That's their job, but when it comes to war, it isn't the press' job to decide what we need to know and when. It's the military's. I wonder when this tradition ended.
I can't help but get emotional when I hear this. I live in awe and envy of the people who were part of this, knowing what they were about to embark upon.
I agree, though I don't envy them what they went through. My uncle was in the Canadian army and fought in the Pacific and in northwestern Europe. He only spoke of it once because what he went through left a terrible life long impression on him.
Very very few times in the annals of History is the birth of the freedom and the salvation of countless people's lives from the tyranny of darkness recorded in a heartbeat for all of posterity to hear.
Like John Wayne said about the British in the movie The Longest Day. Everyone's all keyed up. Waiting to go. Ready to jump off... Makes my hairs stand up thinking about what it must have been like anticipating the allied invasion.
Many years ago one summer I found out after midnight that a specific station plays Old Time Radio Shows. And so I would stay up till 2pm listening. Then one night I heard "Breaking news! Allied troops have landed in Normandy and Cherbourg..." And was quite surprised to they would include this kind of stuff.
I've recently read the Diary of Anne Frank, and the section where she and her family first hear of the invasion is so heartwrenching, both for the hopefulness in her thoughts and the knowledge that she would never live to see the freedom the invasion promised.
@@retiredbore378 Imagine what a bunch of loudmouths could do to the entire opperation! I don't have a source for this of course but I think that would be one of the major causes of not allowing soldiers contact with civillians.
@@sakom0793 Vladimir Peniakoff ("Popski") wrote after the war that quite a few high-class prostitutes in Egypt were actually Italian intelligence assets. Others were mistresses of British officers. They found out quite a lot of useful information from "pillow talk". Peniakoff discovered this when Italy changed sides and he talked to an Italian intelligence operative.
It was hard to conceal that SOMETHING was up. Just prior to Barbarossa, German-occupied Poland went from having a few hundred thousand German Army troops to about two million, and if the Soviets had any intelligence personnel based there it would have been impossible to miss. But giving warnings and having them heeded are two different things...
Contrast this to the on-the-ground reporting for the war in Ukraine. Wild how different the times are we live in, while the core concepts still remain as valid as ever.
I had heard that Rommel was convinced that the bad weather over the channel would preclude any invasion that day, therefore he left Normandy to attend his wife's birthday celebration scheduled for June 6th. If so, that's a chilling coincidence. If Rommel's wife had been born on any other day, then it's quite possible that Rommel would have been in Normandy at the time of the invasion. He would likely have recognized that it was not a faint and would have called in the Panzers despite any orders from above. If he would have been able to repel or slow down the invasion, he may have changed the course of history. Happy Birthday, Frau Rommel...
Prior to our entry into the war we set up weather stations in Northern Canada. My uncle was involved. Those weather stations predicted the break in the weather for June 6th. Rommel didn't have that information.
Interesting observation. I too have wondered what might have befallen the Allies had Rommel been present in Normandy. I am a firm believer that the superior allied air power and numerity would have overcome even Rommel.
There are several TH-cam videos with of hours of live radio news coverage of D-Day as it was reported. I remember letting one play in the background while doing something else. People of the time must have been glued to their radios, eager for more details. I'm assuming we will be getting some of the same reports, but with video.
@@JohnJohn-pe5kr Yes, but there is more potential content available than you could fit into 24 hours. If you think of the millions of different perspectives of D-Day, from both military and civilian witnesses, they could make weeks worth of content telling the day in chronological order. We are bound to get some of the surviving radio news broadcasts but certainly not all of them. As with all rolling news, much of the broadcasts were repeating snippets of information the stations obtained throughout the day.
I bet a company could be successful if they put out news like this, monotone, just the facts, no opinion or theorizing, no "thanks for joining us" just straight to the news!
@Julian Craso I mean, maybe. I don't know. I feel like it could be a thing. I'm weird, but I listen to old news reports and reels all the time. I love the NYT wayback machine or whatever where you can read articles from mid 1800s-today.
Why do you think CNN changed from being relatively straight news to more opinions and debate? The ratings were awful. And no one watched "Headline News," a straight news broadcast.
From the thumbnail I thought you were going to provide a recording of John Snagge's original broadcast - but what you did provide is something I've never heard before
For the American radio networks, CBS and NBC news coverage last for several hours and are both great to listen to. I don’t know if MBS (Mutual Broadcasting System) has an audio footage.
The BBC always gave Broadcasted Radio messages about the War, from Day one. With 'Britain's declaration of War, on Germany., September 3rd, 1939. The D --Day announcement was given by the BBC's News man, John Snagg, who, with fellow News men, informed us about the War, for nearly six years.
The only thing I can think of that is relatable is when you're listening to the weather channel about an impending weather system capable of producing tornadoes, wondering where one is going to touch down and then hear that one is on the ground in a place you know and get a similar sense of an enemy invading (in this case by a natural disaster). Except in this case it happens completely out of the blue and it's the largest tornado in human history.
Ici Londres! Les Français parlent aux Français. avant de commencer notre émission, voici quelques messages personnels. Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne...
Somewhere in the audio archives there’s a recording “from the hotel atop the Bellevue” in Philadelphia. “We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an important bulletin. Unconfirmed, enemy reports claim that the invasion of Europe has begun.”
A really interesting contrast is between Ike's and FDR's speeches that day. It really gets lost in history but FDR's speech style was that of a preacher and it really comes through while Eisenhower just stated everything as fact.
I'm assuming that it was a computer program that accidentally capitalized the reference to united nations (at 1:00), since the United Nations was not going to be a thing until a year after D-Day. Or is time travel real and nobody told me?
The Declaration of the United Nations in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor. On January 1, 1942, 26 countries at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of World War II. The Declaration of the United Nations endorsed the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
Hearing this , I have to wonder what my 68 year old grandmother was thinking , knowing that she had two sons over there and wondering how long it would be before she heard from them again . Thankfully they both made it home in one piece .
There were two members of my family directly involved in the landings. My Father on a merchant ship , with his girlfriend in Southampton. And my wifes grandfather, who survived at Dunkirk , and went back on D-Day. He had a wife and two daughters in Andover. They were lucky ones who survived the day.
My grandmother had one in the 101st at D day and one Island hopping through the Pacific. They both made it home though one was wounded and the other became disabled because of his service.
i/me dad, J Ferd was there then. motorpool infantry to Utah beach, guarded german pow, shot at sniper in parashoot, played mandalin pre invasion, and recovery after flag/b-day hands near blown off. mountain boys practiced in library for presidential dinner intertainment of various military band,choir, Jubilee singers higlighted, over burl ives still new...
Had a question about contributions. I contributed to the D-Day project back on the 17th, but I haven't received any message about that. I had assumed there might be some return message basically acknowledging receipt and perhaps asking for the name that is to be added to the credits, or something to that effect. Is not the case?
My mother and my grandparents were living in Southern England. In the early hours of the 6th June, 1944, they heard a sound, unlike anything that they had heard in nearly FIVE years of war. They went outside, and in my mother's words, 'the sky seemed to be full of aircraft, and the ground seemed shake under their feet.' This went on for the rest of the night. The looked at each other, and said, 'this must be it, this must be the day'. The 9am BBC news bulletin really only confirmed what they, any doubtless many thousands of others, already knew was happening.
On the 1sr June 1944 the message was Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne On the 5th June at 23:15 came this. Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone No place, not much warning... The SOE must have expected that somebody in France had been interrogated.
Wonder how many who originally heard this could have guessed that Germany would fully accept Allied unconditional surrender terms in exactly 11 months and 2 days?
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Holy cow! I've got a lot of catching up to do.
Thank you for all of your hard work, you are creating the Best video documentation of the history of WWII just 80 years after the war. Future historians and school kids trying to get out of reading will watch your videos for generations to come. As a Disabled Veteran I truly appreciate all of your hard work.
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I subscribed and donated, you guys are so awesome its amazing how you keep delivering quality week after week after week.
Hearing is like this genuinely have me shivers. Imagine a war going on for this long, and on the radio you hear "landing Allied armies this morning on the coast of France"....landing in the place cut off from the rest of the world for the last 5 years.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 Maybe because of all those murders they done.
@@topeka088 The modern US is founded on genocide of Native Americans. That's just one tiny thing out of the many things the US and Britain has done. Don't you dare
@@frenzalrhomb6919 I was kind of referring to the entire structure of the Soviet state. A good literary example of what I mean is the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
@@frenzalrhomb6919 “No mention “ of allied atrocities ? You must have Never watched any! WAH episodes.
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Thank you for the knowledge bro
Amazing you could write that without saying the "P" word.
@@obsidianjane4413 It should be taught in grade-school that any information released by the government is propaganda.
In loving memory of my dad's cousin, Normand Chartier, combat medic, US 4th Infantry Division, Utah Beach. He made it all the way to Germany and survived the war. He passed a few years ago and he was one of the kindest men I ever met.
Was he from New England ?
@@vincentlefebvre9255 yes he was, in my home city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In fact my whole family is French Canadian, and he spoke fluent French. He was effectively an interpreter for his division, and while in Normandy, he once had to explain to a mother in French that there was nothing they could do for her injured son she had carried to their medical tent. The boy had been shot through the gut. It must have gutted my cousin Normand to be the only one who could communicate to the mother the awful news in French.
@@papaguy2001 The French in those days having no clue about the French Canadian accent, she surely thought that it was how American accent sounded when they speak French.
Thank you, Peter Guy, for sharing your family history with us. Our condolences for your loss.
@@WorldWarTwo thanks so very much for your kind words. His passing was poignant for my family and we miss him dearly, but we take comfort in our memories of all he did in his life. Thanks for all you do to keep the memory of veterans like my cousin Normand alive.
This really gives me chills. I can only imagine how the people who heard this report must have felt.Witnesses to history.
Lets hope we never find out what this felt like. In current year warfare it would be like hearing ... they finally pushed the button.
@@HontasFarmer80 As someone who’s been following following the Russo-Ukrainian War, I can only guess it’s how I felt hearing about the sinking of the Moskva, the Kherson Offensive, and the incursion into Belgorod all combined times 100.
Some of those witnesses were just too little to understand the significance. I was only about two and a half at that time, but I can still remember visiting my grandmother, and watching out of her window an endless column of hundreds and hundreds of military vehicles rumbling south towards the English coast. D-day must have happened just a few days later.
My parents were part of 'the greatest generation.' My dad never served overseas, but my mother told me she cried when she heard the announcement.
Researchers at the Eisenhower Presidential Library recently uncovered a speech General Eisenhower never had to give ... but it was ready.
In it he says the failure of the Normandy invasion is his sole responsibility, no one else is to blame.
The first reports of a huge secret operation going off always comes from the enemy.
Or in modern times, random people on Twitter. Famously the operation to kill Osama bin Laden was live tweeted by a Pakistani man that lived in the same city.
Bletchley Park had decoded intercepts very early in the morning stating paratroopers were landing in the Past de Calais area.
We know now those paratroopers were the half sized fakes.
And Stalin still won't believe them 😂 "Must be British psych ops!!"
@@DrVictorVasconcelos Stalin and not believing the Allies about invasions: name a more iconic duo.
@@Aakkosti Stalin and the Allied heads of state, by the way... still a better love story than Twilight 🤭
For some reason I cried. This series really made me feel the magnitude of the horror of this war and for that I thank you.
Just after Stalingrad, I asked my grandmother, who was I think about 19/20 at the time and lost her boyfriend on the hood "did you know how bad it was? because to me it looks like you must have though you were going to lose."
She said "we didn't really know, they didn't tell us" - which I'm aware of, but I can't help feeling a lot of older people, soldiers (like my late grandfather, a linguistics teacher and signals officer) would have known the true meaning of the Nazis overrunning all of eastern Europe, france, the fall of Singapore and the threat to Egypt etc etc... And just not said it to the nice red cross girl putting ice on their child's head from the beam that fell on them in the bombing.
The sheer sense of relief that Stalingrad, el Alamein, the landings in Italy, would have produced. This announcement must have told people not only would the world not be fought to a standstill and the Nazis domination of Europe be accepted, but that this would all be over one day, maybe soon.
I wonder today how my grandmother's personal naivety, yet trust in authority was shaped by her experience in her politically formative years fighting a horribly necessary war under a government operating total information control and having to desperately marshal an empires population.
This shows me the value, not just in detail but in *understanding* of this format. I think about how much all the people who've seen this series have been through, grown, over the least five years. For people at the time, their whole lives were shaped and dominated for so long by their mobilisation towards total war. Nothing before has truly shown me that made me feel that shared feeling towards them. Thank you all.
How exciting that must have been. I notice they don't say where on the northern coast of France. They wanted to keep the ruse of landing at Calais going as long as possible.
Look up the Beach Jumpers.
When this channel goes over the war in Italy, all I can think of is, "What was going through grandfather's head this whole time?"
He lived Northeast of Rome along the coast making rope for the Italian Navy. I still have his immigration papers, it amazes me that even in the chaos of war, Italy's government remained intact. Here I am, first generation American borne, recently retired from the USAF.
This must have been an amazing moment to witness in person. Thanks for uploading this.
Thank you, Bob Kondrk.
Got me emotional as well, but that because it's a bit of history. As it happened. Preserved on audio. Forever
Thanks!
Thank you for this historic broadcast. I am hoping to get the 6th of June off work to follow the hour by hour coverage of D-Day. My mother, who was in the WRAF at the time, had her 22nd birthday on D-Day 1944.
Thank you, John Tipper.
The start of Medal of Honor: Frontline with Eisenhowers speech never ceases to give me goosebumps. I recommend everyone watch it before this D-Day special kicks off!
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Having also grown up with that one, I find Hearts of Iron 4 speech edits do a nice job as well.
I love listening to radio broadcasts from that day
I have been following the team from the beginning since The Great War and have been through a lot of good and not so good things since then. I moved to France and a lot of struggling (mainly financial) didn't allow me to support the channel as I wanted.However, everyday I walk by several WW2 memorials and I always think about this whole project, how important it is and the lessons we need to learn from history. Today I am happy not only because I don't have to think if I have to skip lunch or dinner to make it until the end of the month, but also because I am finally able to become a contributor and help this project becoming reality! As long as I have the means, I will support this channel in any way and thanks for all the work WW2/TGH team!
Thank you, Nicolas Ruiz
This gives me goosebumps. Just this single sentence ".Under the command of General Eisenhower [...] began landing [...] on the northern cost of France." Just this one single terse statement. And yet it meant so much to so many people. Can't wait to watch the series.
Imagine being a French citizen and (somehow) hearing this. If you were in the Resistance, you were already heading for the door to go make some poor Jerry’s day miserable. If you weren’t, you probably felt hope swell within you. The nightmare would soon be over.
@@dave3749 Didn't know about that. Wow. Such understatement. This has to be THE most badass one liner ever.
0:14 a communications disruption can mean only one thing:
Invasion
Impressive.......... Most impressive.....
Can't believe it is this close now. A lot of major things are going to happen in the next few months!
You’re right. The strangest thing to me is how the losing side clung to battle in lieu of capitulation. Six years ago my wife and I strolled through an Austrian town and came upon a cemetery full of crosses adorned with German helmets on top. About twenty soldiers lost from that one village. The chilling thing was how almost all of them died in April of 1945, and how most of them were around 20 years of age. Senseless. All those young men, forever 20 years old in their parents’ and siblings’ minds. Horrible.
@@cmleoj The losing side, the Germans, knew they would answer for their crimes against humanity.
The D-Day landings "on the northern coast of France" were announced at 09:32 on 6th June 1944 on the BBC Home Service by John Snagge.
Hearing this engulfed my body in goosebumps, just like it does whenever I hear the words "The Somme".... Up and down my legs and arms.
Same here, finally pluskat is in for a surprise😂😂😂😂
Reading these comments, I'm glad I'm not the only one with goosebumps and shivers. I finished watching it about 5 minutes ago, am reading comments, and they won't stop. Truly one of the most important moments in all of recent history.
“Soldiers, sailors, and airmen….of the Allied Expeditionary Force….you are about to embark upon the great crusade….towards which we have striven these many months….”
DEUS VULT.
You are about to embark on the great crusade
This means the war has taken a dramatic turn. Whatever will happen next?
Lots of ulcers, bitten fingernails, and most certainly, cigarettes back home -- not a good time to have a noisy neighbor dog interrupting broadcasts. I look forward to the coverage.
I heard this in Indy's voice. ;)
Don't worry about it. Nobody thinks it's worth waking Hitler to tell him.
@@SnabbKassa yeah and rommel is busy celebrating his wife's birthday.
@@SnabbKassa It's CLEARLY a diversion!!! The REAL invasion is landing at CALAIS!!!!
My mother worked at SHAEF Southwick House near the coast. She was a coder for the Wrens. Eisenhower was there everyday and the Wrens were locked down the 2 weeks prior to DDay. Exciting times. The Wrens were on the continent 3 weeks after DDay & provided communication support to the British army forces as they drove through France, Belgium, Holland & Germany.
Very cool!
I wonder if she met my grandfather, Col. Ernest Dupuy, who was the one who made the official announcement.
Listening to this and knowing what it means nowadays is tremendous.
Hearing how it was announced back in the day was great.
I wish warn news was announced the same way now. There's too much question and answer from the press. That's their job, but when it comes to war, it isn't the press' job to decide what we need to know and when. It's the military's. I wonder when this tradition ended.
This will be epic!
Fascinating love this history
We’re happy you enjoyed!
I can't help but get emotional when I hear this. I live in awe and envy of the people who were part of this, knowing what they were about to embark upon.
I agree, though I don't envy them what they went through. My uncle was in the Canadian army and fought in the Pacific and in northwestern Europe. He only spoke of it once because what he went through left a terrible life long impression on him.
Very very few times in the annals of History is the birth of the freedom and the salvation of countless people's lives from the tyranny of darkness recorded in a heartbeat for all of posterity to hear.
Well said.
"Underground members, report to your trusted leaders, be prepared for anything"
Like John Wayne said about the British in the movie The Longest Day. Everyone's all keyed up. Waiting to go. Ready to jump off... Makes my hairs stand up thinking about what it must have been like anticipating the allied invasion.
Blessent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.
History at its best !
I've already taken the 6th off so I can be there for the whole 24 hours.
I'll need some strong black tea for this.
We appreciate your dedication!
I love how you took a transmitted recording. you can hear that is was a long wave transmission with the wavy sound
Many years ago one summer I found out after midnight that a specific station plays Old Time Radio Shows. And so I would stay up till 2pm listening.
Then one night I heard "Breaking news! Allied troops have landed in Normandy and Cherbourg..."
And was quite surprised to they would include this kind of stuff.
Can't wait. June is going to be chaotic in terms of episodes and content
Hell yeah!!
I've recently read the Diary of Anne Frank, and the section where she and her family first hear of the invasion is so heartwrenching, both for the hopefulness in her thoughts and the knowledge that she would never live to see the freedom the invasion promised.
They heard of the invasion via the BBC.
London and southeast England knew first... The pubs and shops had been filled with soldiers for weeks but in a matter of days, they vanished.
@@retiredbore378 Imagine what a bunch of loudmouths could do to the entire opperation! I don't have a source for this of course but I think that would be one of the major causes of not allowing soldiers contact with civillians.
They'd been moved into camps a little while before to keep it all isolated, but yes, it would be a sign something was about to happen.
@@AdamantLightLP why are you talking?
I just made the same point.
@@sakom0793 Vladimir Peniakoff ("Popski") wrote after the war that quite a few high-class prostitutes in Egypt were actually Italian intelligence assets. Others were mistresses of British officers. They found out quite a lot of useful information from "pillow talk". Peniakoff discovered this when Italy changed sides and he talked to an Italian intelligence operative.
It was hard to conceal that SOMETHING was up.
Just prior to Barbarossa, German-occupied Poland went from having a few hundred thousand German Army troops to about two million, and if the Soviets had any intelligence personnel based there it would have been impossible to miss. But giving warnings and having them heeded are two different things...
Contrast this to the on-the-ground reporting for the war in Ukraine. Wild how different the times are we live in, while the core concepts still remain as valid as ever.
This is a VERY cool piece of history, lads! Much obliged.
Thank you for your support!
You’re very cool yourself!
@@WorldWarTwo Aww shucks... now I'm blushing. 😊
I feel so honored that the D-Day is my birthday!
You guys have done such a good job with this! Well done!!
Thank you so much!
I had heard that Rommel was convinced that the bad weather over the channel would preclude any invasion that day, therefore he left Normandy to attend his wife's birthday celebration scheduled for June 6th. If so, that's a chilling coincidence.
If Rommel's wife had been born on any other day, then it's quite possible that Rommel would have been in Normandy at the time of the invasion. He would likely have recognized that it was not a faint and would have called in the Panzers despite any orders from above. If he would have been able to repel or slow down the invasion, he may have changed the course of history.
Happy Birthday, Frau Rommel...
Prior to our entry into the war we set up weather stations in Northern Canada. My uncle was involved. Those weather stations predicted the break in the weather for June 6th. Rommel didn't have that information.
Interesting observation. I too have wondered what might have befallen the Allies had Rommel been present in Normandy. I am a firm believer that the superior allied air power and numerity would have overcome even Rommel.
This great. Somewhere on the TH-cam, there is or was whole recordings of hours of these broadcasts.
God bless all of them
i cry
The beginning of the end.
There are several TH-cam videos with of hours of live radio news coverage of D-Day as it was reported. I remember letting one play in the background while doing something else. People of the time must have been glued to their radios, eager for more details. I'm assuming we will be getting some of the same reports, but with video.
We will be getting D-Day in chronological order
@@JohnJohn-pe5kr Yes, but there is more potential content available than you could fit into 24 hours. If you think of the millions of different perspectives of D-Day, from both military and civilian witnesses, they could make weeks worth of content telling the day in chronological order.
We are bound to get some of the surviving radio news broadcasts but certainly not all of them. As with all rolling news, much of the broadcasts were repeating snippets of information the stations obtained throughout the day.
I assume the 10 second warning was to give receiving radio stations time to interrupt their current broadcasting so they could carry the message live.
It must have been something, if you just happened to be listening to the radio at that moment, to have heard that broadcast.
Can't wait for the amazing plans you have for D-Day. 24hrs baby!!
I bet a company could be successful if they put out news like this, monotone, just the facts, no opinion or theorizing, no "thanks for joining us" just straight to the news!
They did the guy was named Walter Cronkite.
He went in to Normandy with the 101st in a glider.
@Julian Craso I mean, maybe. I don't know. I feel like it could be a thing. I'm weird, but I listen to old news reports and reels all the time. I love the NYT wayback machine or whatever where you can read articles from mid 1800s-today.
That would be so nice. I'm telling you, the instant news became "entertainment" it was all downhill.
In the world of "infotainment" it would never get off the ground.
Why do you think CNN changed from being relatively straight news to more opinions and debate? The ratings were awful. And no one watched "Headline News," a straight news broadcast.
Blessent mon coeur d’une longueur monotone.
One would think the FIRST announcement would be a german soldier getting his memories of childhood blown out a fresh hole in his head
I have how the preamble is almost as long as the actual message.
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@@WorldWarTwo Thanks Indy! You are a huge inspiration for my channel :)
From the thumbnail I thought you were going to provide a recording of John Snagge's original broadcast - but what you did provide is something I've never heard before
the teasers are getting better
Felt like I just went back in time there.
Short and sweet. The beginning of the end.
For the American radio networks, CBS and NBC news coverage last for several hours and are both great to listen to. I don’t know if MBS (Mutual Broadcasting System) has an audio footage.
would have been, what 3 or 4 AM on the East coast?
The BBC always gave Broadcasted Radio messages about the War, from Day one. With 'Britain's declaration of War, on Germany., September 3rd, 1939. The D --Day announcement was given by the BBC's News man, John Snagg, who, with fellow News men, informed us about the War, for nearly six years.
The only thing I can think of that is relatable is when you're listening to the weather channel about an impending weather system capable of producing tornadoes, wondering where one is going to touch down and then hear that one is on the ground in a place you know and get a similar sense of an enemy invading (in this case by a natural disaster).
Except in this case it happens completely out of the blue and it's the largest tornado in human history.
That's a pretty bare-bones announcement. ‘Here comes the communiqué, you ready for it? We have invaded France. That was the communiqué.’
That was all we needed to know.
The game has started
@@shawnr771 : You're right.
@@tobybartels8426 That is a new development.
Thanks.
I knew the Allies had prewritten anouncements if the invasion went poorly.
Anyone know where the new episode is?
Probably monetization problems...
Terribly sorry for the delay!
We promise we’ll deliver you the next chapter very soon!
-Will
Ici Londres! Les Français parlent aux Français.
avant de commencer notre émission, voici quelques messages personnels.
Les sanglots longs des violons de l’automne...
Vive la France, vive la France LIBRE
Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone
9 days remaining :D
One of the most important moments in 20th century history.
Somewhere in the audio archives there’s a recording “from the hotel atop the Bellevue” in Philadelphia. “We interrupt this broadcast to bring you an important bulletin. Unconfirmed, enemy reports claim that the invasion of Europe has begun.”
John has a long moustache
Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
I literally booked work off for this!
We appreciate your dedication!
What time is coverage starting on the 6th?
00:00 June 6 CET (6PM June 5, EST)
Probably midnight French time, the first paratroopers started landing a few minutes after
Momentous Times! ..Let's not have to repeat it!
My father, Staff Sergeant Robert I Smith , was a soldier who went into France on D Day. I do not recall what beach. 😮😮😮
Thank you, Patricia Reeves, for sharing your family anecdote with us.
A really interesting contrast is between Ike's and FDR's speeches that day. It really gets lost in history but FDR's speech style was that of a preacher and it really comes through while Eisenhower just stated everything as fact.
One was a politician, the other was a military commander. Different jobs.
I'm assuming that it was a computer program that accidentally capitalized the reference to united nations (at 1:00), since the United Nations was not going to be a thing until a year after D-Day. Or is time travel real and nobody told me?
The Declaration of the United Nations in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor.
On January 1, 1942, 26 countries at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nations and 21 more countries formally joined the alliance prior to the end of World War II. The Declaration of the United Nations endorsed the Atlantic Charter, pledging to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace.
@@janiceduke1205 That will teach me to believe Wikipedia :) Thanks.
@@rockrancher4004 😊
Hearing this , I have to wonder what my 68 year old grandmother was thinking , knowing that she had two sons over there and wondering how long it would be before she heard from them again . Thankfully they both made it home in one piece .
There were two members of my family directly involved in the landings. My Father on a merchant ship , with his girlfriend in Southampton. And my wifes grandfather, who survived at Dunkirk , and went back on D-Day. He had a wife and two daughters in Andover.
They were lucky ones who survived the day.
My grandmother had one in the 101st at D day and one Island hopping through the Pacific. They both made it home though one was wounded and the other became disabled because of his service.
i/me dad, J Ferd was there then. motorpool infantry to Utah beach, guarded german pow, shot at sniper in parashoot, played mandalin pre invasion, and recovery after flag/b-day hands near blown off. mountain boys practiced in library for presidential dinner intertainment of various military band,choir, Jubilee singers higlighted, over burl ives still new...
How did I miss this?
Such a simple communique.
Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that had been away. . .
Had a question about contributions. I contributed to the D-Day project back on the 17th, but I haven't received any message about that. I had assumed there might be some return message basically acknowledging receipt and perhaps asking for the name that is to be added to the credits, or something to that effect. Is not the case?
Does anyone know if this channel has an email address to which queries can be submitted? Thanks.
And so it begins.
My mother was living in Lawton, Ok, close to Fort Sill. She said that whole day people were walking around in a silent daze was to if it would work.
My mother and my grandparents were living in Southern England. In the early hours of the 6th June, 1944, they heard a sound, unlike anything that they had heard in nearly FIVE years of war. They went outside, and in my mother's words, 'the sky seemed to be full of aircraft, and the ground seemed shake under their feet.'
This went on for the rest of the night.
The looked at each other, and said, 'this must be it, this must be the day'.
The 9am BBC news bulletin really only confirmed what they, any doubtless many thousands of others, already knew was happening.
Wound my heart with a monotonous languor.
Hold until relieved
On the 1sr June 1944 the message was
Les sanglots longs
des violons
de l'automne
On the 5th June at 23:15 came this.
Blessent mon coeur
d'une langueur
monotone
No place, not much warning... The SOE must have expected that somebody in France had been interrogated.
John has a long mustache.
I think the invasion will take place at the Pas-de-Calais.
Can I get the Panzer reserve, please?
Unfortunately not. Somebody at OKH is sleeping on it.
@@ilokivi Damn it!
Mother of all booze cruises and nothing else, right?
@@peterfriedenspfeife9230 Der Failure is sleeping and in command of Panzer divisions.
Is the D Day thing going to be literally 24 hours long
I think so
Indeed it will be.
Yes
hell yeah it will be!!!
Wonder how many who originally heard this could have guessed that Germany would fully accept Allied unconditional surrender terms in exactly 11 months and 2 days?
Very soon
Shit's about to get real
"John has a long mustache"
well what happens next!! lol did they do well? cant wait to find out :P
What a teaser!
This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. But perhaps, it is the end of the beginning.
The rescue has begun.
Who is that guy at the end of the video who had been seen before multiple times ?
Any story about him ?
You guys have a typo in the final image. "Contribute" not "contribiute"
Thank you, Koln for notifying us
So cool!!!
Thank you, William Cabrol, for your interest in our channel.