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Complete Broadcast Day D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Old Time Radio Programs, Complete Broadcast Day, D Day, June 06 1944


This audio is part of the collection: Old Time Radio

Date: 1944-06-06
Keywords: Old Time Radio Programs; Complete Broadcast Day; D Day; June 06 1944

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Notes

Series Is Now Complete. Thank You to Pokermatt for the fills.

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Reviewer: ToadSmuggler - - June 20, 2009
Subject: Get 'em while they're hot!
If you're interested in these you had better download them right away. They may well be removed like the entire huge World War II broadcasts collection was earlier today, then you'll be out of luck. Seems there's some greedy rights holder of news broadcasts out there.

Reviewer: marcus.rosentrater - - June 6, 2009
Subject: Harrowing
It's June 6 2009, the 65th anniversary of these recordings. I've been playing them all day in the background. I find myself pricking up my ears at certain points, almost forgetting it's history. It is a harrowing account from that perspective. During certain moments you can imagine what it must have been like to switch on the radio at 6am getting ready for work on a Tuesday morning and this came over the air. I never quite understood how that the great invasion was something the American people knew would happen, without knowing the time and place. I don't know if I've ever felt that feeling, that something big is happening, it's getting closer, impending.

Thanks for posting this.

Reviewer: Ray Dio - - April 17, 2009
Subject: Discrepancy
This and the companion NBC set are fantastic. I copy them to my MP3 player and listen at night when I cannot sleep. But I have just one puzzlement.

I had been listening to the CBS files in sequence, and noticed that Part_003 begins with the comments of the French military analyst Mr. Miller, introduced by the CBS Washington bureau at the end of Part_004.

Part_002 seems to run from about 3:48 to 4:48 AM. It ends abruptly during a report by James Wellard of the Blue (according to CBS records that started at 4:48). From other sources I've estimated that the time period covered by Part_004 is from 5:53 to 6:59 AM. There are references to Richard Hottelet's broadcast of 5:07 AM.

So we seem to be missing a segment from 4:48 to 5:53 AM. That portion would also contain a pool report from Dave Anderson (NBC) and at 5:29 a closed circuit (but ordered broadcast by him) between Paul White and Ed Murrow).

Any ideas?

Reviewer: RacingHistorian - - November 29, 2008
Subject: Deepest Thanks
Studying history "in the moment," when the participants and correspondents were unaware of what would happen next, makes these momentous events come alive.

These recordings are a treasure.

My deepest thanks for making them available.

Reviewer: Mars West - - April 17, 2008
Subject: More Information Please
This is an amazing set, a time machine.

Does anyone have information on the source for this? A segment by segment rundown would be delightful, as well.

Reviewer: Dark Apitude - - April 8, 2008
Subject: Very intresting but low Quality
Very interesting and complete selection but mp3 at 32kbps is a terrible low audio Quality.

Reviewer: cid92 - - November 13, 2007
Subject: Three Stars?
Someone gives this three stars because two of the files take a few months to be found?!? Please. You're lucky we can hear this at all 63 years after it happened. Not only that, you don't even have to pay to hear it cause it's a free flipping download.

Some people can never be pleased......

Oh yeah - this is simply amazing. Download it and enjoy it. Great piece of world history.

Reviewer: Razzilla - - June 3, 2007
Subject: You're also missing part 22
It's enjoyable to hear these broadcasts...when they can be found...but when it takes six months to find one missing mp3 out of this collection...only to find out there's a second one missing makes it notas enjoyable...

Reviewer: Daniel Beller - - April 15, 2007
Subject: A fascinating document
I am listening today, Holocaust Memorial Day overhere in Israel, to this broadcast, hour by hour. It is a frightening experience, even for those of us born a long time after D-Day. Check elsewhere here in IA for the complete collection of WWII newscasts - the URL is http://www.archive.org/details/worldwarIInewsOTRKIBM

for a very complete collection of soundclips for one of humanity's darkest hours.
This collection is of amazing good quality, encoded at 32k 16khz, giving thus the feeling of AM frequency response. Listening to both collections is hard for those of us that lost families in the holocaust, mine isn't even documented properly and will never be, but these recording gave me the oportunity to, at least, know more. I thank the person that made this recording available and thank IA for making this available to the public at large, no words can even describe what these documents mean to those of us, in all countries, that have gone thru some many wars...

Daniel Beller
daniel.beller@gmail.com