LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

D-Day landings archive recordings

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1974

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Duration

00:03:51

Description

A selection of archival BBC radio clips on the D-Day landings. The first is the announcement of the D-Day landings, including a report from a bomber plane on a mission as they fly over the invasion. The next section is General Dwight Eisenhower’s announcement of the D-Day landings and then there is a selection of reports on progress of the landings. Music separates reports.

Contributors

Dwight D. Eisenhower; BBC

Keywords

Second World War (1939-1945); Military operations; Operation Overlord (1944); Operation Neptune (1944); Normandy

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