Скачать или смотреть D-Day Broadcast Day Part 23 - The Second Day Dawns: Morale & The Mounting Operation, June 7 1944

In this twenty-third installment of our D-Day Broadcast Day coverage, Bob Trout from New York opens with a strategic summary of the invasion's second day, confirming that operations are progressing well with unexpectedly light casualties and a steady flow of reinforcements reaching the 60-mile wide beachhead despite unfavorable Channel weather.

The broadcast then delves into the human element with two powerful dispatches. First, Quentin Roosevelt provides a stark analysis of troop morale, explaining the hardened mentality of Allied soldiers who have learned to hate the German "Krauts" as a ruthless enemy that fights without honor, booby-trapping their own dead and rejecting all rules of warfare. This hatred, he argues, is a key component of their high morale and resolve.

Second, a lengthy and colorfully detailed dispatch from correspondent Howard Whitman describes the incredible scene at an English invasion port. He captures the astonishing calm and determination of the troops boarding the armada "as if headed for a Sunday school picnic," complete with shaved heads to prevent infection, poker games with invasion currency, and vehicles named "Give Them Hell." His report culminates with the sobering sight of the first German prisoners and Allied wounded being brought back to Britain, marking the grim cycle of war now fully in motion.

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