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Because these are recordings of the original live news reports, you can learn how the American people were informed of the D-Day invasion.



In 1984, my Mom (now deceased) and I watched several TV documentaries commemorating the 40th anniversary of D-Day. On the evening of June 6th, we listened to a radio program that normally rebroadcasts classic old-time radio shows.



On this particular occasion, the producers of that program decided to rebroadcast excerpts of radio news coverage of that day.



After listening to it, my Mom and I agreed that this was the best retrospective of D-Day we had seen or heard, since it, by playing back the original radio news coverage, allowed us to experience June 6, 1944 in a way none of the TV specials (not even the rerun of the 1964 interview Walter Cronkite taped with General Eisenhower in Normandy) could.

- October 12, 2013What Was It Like On June 6, 1944? Listen To These Podcasts!