Hero. Everything that everyone did was an act of bravery. When you are in line, you are one person. They were about protecting mankind based on those values, that ha has always been the mainstay of how you actually win over evil. It was most monumental military operation in for modern history, dday june 6, 1944, 75 years later we look back in remembrance on the beaches, triumph, tragedy and brilliant plan that ultimately liberated a continent. You will hear stories of some of our heroes and join them as they journey back to normandy. Thank you for joining us for, remembering dday, a 75 anniversary special. It was nothing like the german monopoliry. The capability and leadership of the German Military which was first rate. They were under orders from hitler, if they encounters any opposition what so ever they were to stop, they encountered no opposition. Nazi forces laid a plan to seize the rest of europe. They got away with it, and staged takeovers of austria and czechoslovakia then poland. September 3, 1939, glanc frad britain declare war on germany. Denmark, norway, belgium, the netherlands. Every leader in europe, who was listening to germany being nazi fid, so to speak. Family corrupt and barbaric ideology. Did not to believe that this would dominate europe. German forces were able to trap the british and french arms on the coast of dunkirk. The french grand to negotiate. In june, 1940, british troops were surrounded and forced to evacuate france at dunkirk. They didnt have the ability to deal with this modern german army. Cancer of to was too deep, oe 14, paris fell. With france occupied, hitler turned his attention to britain in july 1940. The nazi air force, began to bomb the city of london in what was known at the blitz, terrified london residents endured relentless bombardment. They didnt have precision bombing, they were carpet bombing the city of london. British Prime Minister churchill rallieded british people to stay strong. To stick it out, fight nazi, germany to the bi bitter end. France was divided in two parts, in south the free zone, and north occupied france. They started rounds up the Jewish Population of paris, in waves, holding them, then most of those people were september to thsent to theconcentration cd elsewhere, many of them to die. Allies close to the point of no return. They didnt react quickly enough in my judgment, to what was happening and push back and frtry to contain germany, in a sense incentivized hitler. Across the atlantic, the United States was waiting and watching. We shall send you in ever increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. That is your purpose and our pledge. Not directly declares war u. S. Government september sent s and ar till let ar tilliaryo britain. President roosevelt and british Prime Minister churchhill drafted the atlantic charter. Said that democratic powers of the world should oppose all expansion by force, should not seek accretion of territory on their own, and espouse and encourage and try to defend freedom for all people. Democracy the west had known for two centuries, hung in the balance, the world needs a saving grace. December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. Japan attacked pearl harbor, roosevelt went to congress, asked for a declaration of war, he got it is declaration of war against japan. In support of japan, germany declared war on United States, december 11, 1941, United States was officially an allied power then. Roosevelt called for production of 50 thousand aircraft in a year, everyone thought he was crazy, he did it twice, the economy shifted right away from peacetime economy to a wartime economy. As home front ramped up for war, so did the soldiers destined to storm the beaches on normandy on dday. I was supporting a mother and father, i was chosen from a regular infantry division, i was platoon sergeant. I was big shot, i walked down to the draft board, i volunteered to go with 101 airborne, not knowing what was what, i think it was one of the wiseests choices that i made. Unaware of Critical Role they would play in one of historys most pivotal battles for world peace. You draw the strength to fight for Something Like that by the will of the people, you know the will of the people, you know it is evil. Lets be honest. Its kind of unfair that safe drivers have to pay as much for insurance. As not safe drivers ah that was a stunt driver. Thats why esurance has this drivesense® app. The safer you drive, the more you save. Dont worry, im not using my phone and talking to a camera while driving. Im being towed. By the way, im actually a safe driver. Im just pretending to be a not safe driver. Cool. Bye dennis quaid when insurance is affordable, its surprisingly painless. Its nice. 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Operation over lord, over next year and a half they developed a plan. They designate a chief of staff, and Lieutenant General to fill that war, who does the initial planning for operation over lord, stated objective were who land with forces of other allies, destroy the German Military, and cause the germans to realize they have to surrender. Ice e eisenhower was in charf was operation overall commander and chief, and montgomery was in charge of the invasion force once it get into france. Breaking through germany defenses to occupied europe would be a monumental task. In massive quantities from nazi production line. Despite a nazi advantage. The cont septembe son sep cod invasion, haunted hitler. That was when he appointed rommel to command that, he shifted troops from east to west at that time. They were formidable obstacles they put them in water that would deny ships the ability to land, they had mines in the water, the beaches were littered with obstacles. Almost a solid wall of steel expirsteeland iron and guns. This was hitlers atlantic wall. Stretched across northern france, and continued up the coast through norway. What the allies wanted is to keep those germans dispersed on the coastline, they would not be able to focus their effort in one place. The key to ensuring the invasion force would face a vulnerable german army, choosing a strategic landing point. They picked normandy, the germans expected invasion to come at caillat. Calais. The french region of pasdecalais was closer to england. 5 beaches. And they were spread out among 60 miles of coastline. A shrewd point of infiltration. To storm those 5 beaches. Well try to liberate part of it we have to put millions of men through the beach head. 11,000 airplanes, 50 thousand vehicles, and 6 thousand ships to include Landing Craft, never before in the history of military operations has anything like that. And never has there been anything since. There are three British Empire beaches, gold is a british beach, and two american beaches. During 1943 and 44, nazis had most effort focused on soviet union in the east, increasing ally chances of victory at normandy. Allied leaders choreographed the invasion, keeps details classified even from those who would fight on the front lines. We knee w knew we would haven invasion. How, where, what, we had no 1 conception. Steps were taken to mislead hitlers army. It is about brilliance. Allies knew they were out numbered, and out gunned. Yet they were the invasion force. It was operation fortitude in order and south. North to invents the army that an invasion would come through norway, and fortitude south to pasdecalais, the more probable invasion point. There were two pieces of a larger decent shi dedont den plan, disierned t designed to me germans did not know where and when they would land. They had american ghost armies. An American Army group headed by general patten. They used radio deception, they were representing called first u. S. Army group. Total fictitious. They had spies who were Double Agents convincing the germans these organizations existed. Each one represented a Major Military formation, they would send out signals. Allies covered all basis, not only telecommunications. They used physical deception, they built up plat inflatable t, they put them in the area. They put in place, on the ground, literally hundreds of planes made out of plywood. They put up tents, kept fires burning. Aircraft came across into scotland where the British Army Group was in theoriy in theory in place, that is what they saw, the germans were convinced it would be an attack in the northern part of europe in norway and sweden, those divisions did not move. And also convinced that george papatten would lead an invasion offset from normandy, and that is why those forces never moved either. So that deception was very successful. 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Bombers were set to swoop in and pummel german ar til ar tillr hub along the coast. While also bringing with them weapons and medical supplies and navigation tools thanos an ot of amphibious boats. A second wave would come in later more Landing Craft, they held 30 men, and each one had so many rifle men and flame throwers and engineers. As a member of 101 air force division victors training focused on parashooting. Parashootparachuting. You sa. Will the red light goes on we go to the door, as soon as green light goes on. We jump. I got a call, from the general second in command, of 76 division, asking me, how would i like to be First Sergeant of ranger company. Leonard trained to storm the beach by sea. We were trained in the states as far a far azam far as ampg were concerned. That was about a year for many of the soldiers, we were fortunate to have that time to prepare. The day drew closer, and true process of the mission was revealed. Little by little they fed us information, they told us, you are out of here. Mission is, when we landed we had to take the ground, and we had to try to establish a foothold on to france proper. They wanted to do it with a full moon. It was time for the troops to embark on their journey to the coast of france. We went to one of the airfields, few days at a time, we knew what was coming. Meteorologists told them when the weather was clear it would be awful on the fifth, and ike decided he had to postpone it. Terrible, stormy, rainy, windy. There was a break in the horrible weather. General eisenhower changed it from the fifth to 6, that was his only opportunity. They had to have at least about 30 hours leave time for ships to leave all over united kingdom. We loaded to trans ports that would take us mor over, we left nightfall. Rommel left his post. He was in germany. As young allied troops awaited orders, their leaders knew they were sending money of these young men to certain death, general eisenhower prepared the troops for battle. You are about to embark on great crusade, the eyes of the world ar are upon you. Walked into the plane that was it. Never saw. Thousands of troops made the vovoyage, many became sea sick n stormy waters, but the storm in the skies would be nothing compared to storm that allied soldiers would encounter in just its nice. You got this woo do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back . About 50 of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. Fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. Fasenra is an addon injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. Fasenra is not a rescue medicine or for other eosinophilic conditions. 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We were in darkness across the night from fifth to six. The night blocked everything out, we didnt have much moon light. After midnight, without moon light, gliders began landing east of sword beach, pilots relying on their instruments. I came aware of earning. Early in the morning of dday, i heard motors, and thousand american aircraft, released too, coming over in waves. One of the allies initial objective to seize two bridges to keep german tanks from mounting a counter attack on the coastline, many soldiers landed in expected territory, others missed their landing zone. The gliders, they took a terrific beating. However 20 minutes past midnight after a number of casualties, three gliders lands in sight of their objective. And canal swing bridge, code name pegasus was captured by the british. Navigated by a stop watch, they succeeded in capturing it within 3 minutes. Ham and jam, the code of the success, operation under lord was underway. Initially, special trained paratroopers went in, they were called path finders, they carried lights and radio beacons, they set up beamons thebeacons andused by pilots fo, and paratroopers than main paratroopers, they too were widely scattered, it made it hard t to do their job. They had obscure lands zones due to low hanging clouds that blocked light. Some dropped so low their parachutes did not have a chance to open. To see trace of bullets coming up, as you get closer to the ground you could hear the ground fire. You went into all i know, i landed, laid there a second, and land my hand down my leg to make sure no bone was sticking out, i took my chute off and ran around trying to make contact with people. Wherever they landed they had to figure out where they were located and their commanders told them go to the nearest objective to that location. That was a brilliant tactic. American paratroopers dropped in adjacent to the main road near the town, and Ground Fighting with german troops ignited, as planned at approximately 2 00 a. M. , an allied assault from the skies ensued. With bombers targeting german points of defense