Audio From the Past [E02] - WW2 - George Hicks D-Day Broadcast (June 6, 1944)

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Audio From the Past [E02] - WW2 - George Hicks D-Day Broadcast (June 6, 1944)

On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces launched "Operation Overlord", the largest amphibious invasion in History.

Among the thousands of ships sailing across the English Channel, a war correspondant narrates the battle raging on near the beaches of Normandy. His name was George Hicks.

Hicks was the London Bureau Chief for the Blue Network, which would later become "ABC", the American Broadcasting Company, He recorded an on-the-scene report of the landings from the USS Ancon, which was broadcast over the american networks via a pool feed.

The New York World-Telegram called his broadcast "the greatest recording yet to come out of the war.".

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