LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

D-Day 50th anniversary

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

5 Jun 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:04:12

Description

Chris Carnegy looks back at Operation Overlord as the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings is this year. Includes interview with Betty Hockey, of the Non Stops entertainment group, who sang for the servicemen who were about to leave for the operation (unbeknown to her); Dwight D Eisenhower announcing the operation on radio; veterans describe the scenes that met them on Sword beach; paratroop veteran Bill Burton on the function laid on by a French village this year to commemorate the liberation. Plays in and out with We’'ll Meet Again performed by Vera Lynn. For Drivetime show.

Contributors

Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vera Lynn; Chris Carnegy; Betty Hockey; Bill Burton

Keywords

France; Second World War (1939-1945); Military operations; Operation Overlord (1944); Wars (events); War casualties; Anniversaries; Veterans (Armed Forces); Normandy; Drivetime (radio programme)

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