75th Anniversary of D-Day

[mark blazejewski]

The 6:00 p.m. hour tonight marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the D-Day operations.


The "Great Crusade" started with air strikes and paratroop drops near the French coast.


Those drops were followed by a massive preparatory naval bombardment, and then the biggest amphibious landing in history.


America first learned of the news at 12:37 a.m., June 6, when radio stations interrupted regular programming to bring listeners an Associated Press bulletin which quoted German reports that the invasion had begun.


What followed was three hours of waiting and uncertainty until 3:32 a.m. when General Eisenhower made the official invasion announcement.

If you are interested, you can listen to, or download the uninterrupted first twenty-four hours of D-Day news coverage by CBS.



https://archive.org/details/Complete...cast_Day_D-Day.

[WNYresident]

Someone from Buffalo waiting for D day

















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[mark blazejewski]

Someone from Buffalo waiting for D day

















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You can feel the tension when looking at photograph one Res.

Amazing!

[WNYresident]

Go to post 4


https://www.speakupwny.com/forums/sh...-June-6th-1944

[mark blazejewski]

Tony, your post looks like my den, sans artifacts.

Love it.

By the way, WBEN was the NBC affiliate; WKBW was the CBS affiliate in Buffalo. Therefore, the referred 3:17 a.m. WBEN (NBC) report of the amphibious landings can not be found on the link I posted.

The continuous coverage on both networks started about 2:50. Those reports concerned the inland airstrikes and parachute drops. The 3:17 a.m. report was the first to suggest the amphibious aspect.

But, it was all speculation until the 3:32 a.m. announcement that change world history.

Thanks for all of the great postings Tony!