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What had they told you beforehand to expect expect hail

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It was sheer nerves

But exhilarating nurse if you never were going

Your task will not be an easy one

Your enemy is well trained

Well equipped in battle

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can you tell me where about you were born please

first of all

And i was born in liverpool

Uh , in , uh , ua street called dcast the street

And what did your father do

My father was a ua sailmaker

And so was the entire as an entire family

Actually

When , when the war came , what were doing then

I think guy is about seventeen years of age

The bombing starts at at the end of

Well at the early nineteen forty one

The corner of the streets is actually destroyed by a scenry bob

So i signed up pull the royal marines

Because my eldest brother , uh

Was already in the marines then

And he was all on leave

And he looks absolutely magnificent in the blue uniform

Why did you immediately volume to you

Well , it was a feeling amongst young men at that time that

Uh , something was going to happen

And the germans were athlec again

And we weren't going to let them do that and tried , i suppose

and patriotism and

The unknown sense of adventure again , i suppose

I told my mother that i was going to do in the rains

And of course she was upset

What did your mother say here when you found out

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In nineteen forty four

World war ii has been raging for over four years

From one side of europe virtually to the other is under german control

This is nazi territory

germany is beginning to bring the war increasingly to britain's doorstep

And there's a sense that really britain's the only little bit that's left

The allies had been thinking about how to get back into europe

Ever since the defeat at dunkirk in nineteen forty

The ultimate goal is to get into germany

The end point being that they get to berlin

That they can overthrow hitler in his own city

At the very center of the third reich

The alis contemplated various different options for how this could be done

The best way ultimately to get to germany

And they reasonably the only way to do that is via northern france

Just across the channel from britain

But to do this they would need hundreds of thousands of men

And volunteers like james kelly were key

Been more spare four or five months before i got at the page which came there

And i'd forgotten all about this

i put out of my mind that does it must be no

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And my mother is stands , she said

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Every single soldier in these resistance

Nest was ordered to fight to the last cartridge and not to surrender

People like franscopt believed if the allies land

He would have to fight and die

There was only a slim chance to survive

Germany always knew that the allies were highly likely to mount invasion

And in anticipation of that

They created a huge series of fortifications all along the north of europe

That became known as the atlantic war

Gum positions

Bunkers , et cetera , that were all put together with the single intention of ensuring that if the allies were to come

When the allies came

Then they would be pushed straight back into the ocean

The germans also started to fortify the beaches

Putting all sorts of armaments

Barbed wire

Huge pieces of equipment that would basically stop any landing force from being able to get too far

the beaches themselves were also min and above the beaches

There were strong points manned by german troops

Who were armed with machine guns

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And you have been in the normandy

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When you look at the average german infantry division in the west in june ninety forty four

They normally consist of forty percent young recruits seventeen or eighteen years old

With still a solid training

but without any more experience

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Eventually the allies identified five beach landing areas across normandy in northern france

Where over one hundred thousand troops would land on d day

From the west there were utah

Omaha

Gold , juno and sword

So utah and omaha were identified as being the american beaches

Do you know was gonna be the canadian beach

And then golden sword with britain's beaches

It's really important to be clear about the fact that nothing of this scale had ever been attempted in human history

This is an event without precedent

The undertaking that was d day was absolutely vast

It's almost impossible to imagine

It's an incredible test of logistics

To have the right amount of aircraft , ships , landing craft

Everybody ready at the same moment when they could launch this attack

It was gonna need a massive amount of training for the troops

involved in a massive amount of new technology to be refined

Because of course the , the means of achieving this had never been done before it's all very well to talk about secrecy

To hope that all this is private

But you would have had to have been blind and deaf

Really certainly in the south of england

Not to notice that something was going on every little lane a chks

Uh , well at the term bb

But a bumb back

Because if i use that they track to track

They were parked right down the one side of the road

Underneath the truly overhanging trees

Whereever they could get

But even so , they weren't camouflies

You couldn't camouflies and properly under there for everybody to say

You've got hundreds of thousands of troops

All of them need to be trained and prepared

And these aren't just troops from britain either though from canada and america

Okay , you're , uh , harry ni parley that's right

My siero hour was three , two , nine , seven

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When did did you go with to the army

I wanted to be army

Uh , in nineteen forty three

I got married me before i knew i was going to be drafting you

You were twenty three years old

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American troops had been arriving in record numbers to great britain since nineteen forty three

In fact , by the end of may in nineteen forty four

There were more than one and a half million us personnel on british soil

And they were there to support or participate in d day

And the battle of normandy that was to follow

My name is thomas william poor seller

I was born in new york city

October fourth , nineteen twenty three

men like tom porceller would brought over in huge troop ships

And they would land in places like belfast or liverpool

And then they would attend training camps

These were mostly in southern england to prepare for the invasion

I was thinking to myself

This is it

It's just a matter of time now and i will be in canva

I wonder what to help

My talks are doing back home

i wanted to thinking about the invasion

like like we are wonder what they would think if they knew at this moment

there sometime was preparing himself for his big and bridge

All sorts of closone

through my mind

I was told that all these new arrivals were to beef up the company from about two

Fifty to three hundred

But they expected the bag

Don't descent um casual pon the invasion

And that we were it

One of the really difficult things about military planning

Is that you have to plan for a number of of your own main getting killed

The strategists and the commanders

knew that they were sending a percentage of these young men to their deaths

Because that's the only way that the invasion could have happened

They just hoped that they've done wherever they could to mitigate the numbers

We wanted to go

Most of us they wanted to go

It's something that had to be done

It might sound a bit gung ho

We wanted a better phrase

But that's how we felt

We had to go and do it

And i don t ever remember talking to anybody

Who was frightened

They feared

I don't think frightening is , is , is the word for , uh , a young man

Uh , it's excitement . real me

If you stand back from us and watch you

I suppose that it is fing

And , you know , you do get the this tingle in and , uh , you know

But i told thing i

I can honestly say i was actually fighting

As well as a sea borne invasion

There was another aspect of dday which was absolutely crucial

And this was the airborne assault

In the middle of the night before d day

Hours before the troops would land on the normandy beaches

thousands of men will be dropped behind enemy lines

And leading

One of these units was major john howard

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well , i had a very

Poor childhood

My father , when you married my mother

Who was slightly older than him

Was a baker's roundsman with a horse

Some car in london in the , uh

Tonic court road area

As the eldest of a very poor family

Um , i had to become a red , red bas soon as possible

So i join the army

I was promoted to major

Don't have it

Um , he was an officer slightly different than ua normal officer type

If you can use that expression

He was a dedicated and he was a fanatic

We determined to make that company dee company

And not only the best company in the outfit

in the regiment , but in the divon

And the next thing i heard was that the fifty seconds that's

The second with tan who come home from india

um was going to be able

And there be lider troops

And i was interested in this

The plan on dday was for some of the airborne troops to fly in all gliders

Essentially a new concept in warfare

There were really lightweight wooden gliders

They were to be towed across on dna on bombers

And then they would be released

of course , one of the most useful things about the glide is quite apart from the fact

They could put these people altogether into one place at one time

Is that as soon as they've been released

They were completely silent

That we were really useful means of a surprise attack

What was he appeal

I suppose there was a big key

I'm more about it as well

Everything's bit hush hush as it happened , you know

In the final weeks before d day

Soldiers were moved to sealed camps

Where they learnt their missions

The soldiers inside these camps were effectively sealed off

They weren't allowed in or out of the camp boundaries

No telephone calls home for example

Any correspondence would be censored

secrecy was paramount

And i imagine that the tension started to build in these sealed camps as well

There was a sort of fever

And we knew that it was definitely something going on

A rumor started from nowhere

We had to attack some places , take some bridges

My camera was lucky to be selected for

What turned out to be a wonderful operation

Elia born to capture her two bridges in normandy

John howard objects on d day was to secure the benneville bridge

Later became known as pegasus bridge

This bridge was really critical

It's really close to the landing beach of sword

so securing this bridge should allow the troops coming in from sword

And those further along to come across and move on towards their objectives

If it's not secured

It allows the germans to do the opposite

and move tanks and troops towards them

And potentially to wreak havoc upon them on the beach

This was an incredibly bowl plan by an elite unit

That will become the start of dday

It's only a few days before d day itself that they shown this scale model

so that when they stepped off the plane

The idea was that nothing would come as a surprise

We all are going into a big tenth

And there land on the table was this thing

We just looked at it

That was the bridge rivers

We know there was something to do with a river

We know there was something to do with a bridge

There was all sorts of guesses

As the wit could be

Nobody had a clue

And even when we were shown it

and everything else we weren't told where it was

In the end of the briefing

Did you give them a pretty good london on

Not only the immediate objectives

But you also then say now the big ticuis obvious

Everybody had that quite clear in their mind

And knew where we fit into the picture

The first people for land that night

And it really did it them between new eyes

The night before d day

Over seven thousand boats set off

Laden with troops , weapons

Tanks and explosives from different points

All along the south coast of britain

They would travel through the night

And wait off the french coast

Ready to launch the assault the next morning

Well , on the night of the fifth

We went as an amazing , amazing sight

Everywhere you look there were

There were ships of all shapes and sizes

The sky always seem to be full of our planes

With the black and white stripes on them

And everything seemed to stand out in technical

it seemed to be

A psychedelic picture

But it was a lovely feeling

Because they were all hours

Everything was ours

And then we went off to normandy

Through the night

Everything seemed to me

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They were very , very crupt

And you , you know , you have memories of the i've just different things that may happen to you

You know . now why associated with those craft where self feet in soup

I know what turns out landish but useleating soup

Because i'm doing where you want to get a hot meal

But that's what i remember about the language

Self feet in soup and a desire to be sick

I mean a terrible rough crossing

From the allies perspective , d day was a massive gamble

Because if those men were to be lost

And that equipment was to be destroyed

Then how do you start again

But not only that

They would never know that the germans knew what their plan was

So they would have to completely reconceive

How any sort of future invasion could have worked

The stakes are extraordinarily high

And it's really impossible to overstate that point

You must have been apprehensive about the possibility of being killed on man

No , um , as a matter of fact

Looking back to the fellows i spoke to when we did

They were so keen

But at the same time so ignorant of true warfare

And this is one of the things that keeps a man going in battle

It can always imagine this might be killed

He can always imagine himself get a nice tidy wood across the head

Or through the leg on the shoulder

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The risks with the gliders were incredibly high

Because they had their engines when they were released

The pilots had really limited means that controlling what was happening and what they were essentially doing

Was kind of a controlled crash landing

If they were to hit anything solid

Or to miss their original landing point

There was nothing that the pilot could do but accept what was to come

After the air film everybody went to the gliders to check

the equipment was all tired , all right

Before that guy i went off

I minutes to go alone

Piece of chalk

I put lady irring right along the side of it

Lady white , lady irring

It's my worst name about lady irene

And great big white letters all alongside

And i kept that at a choke

And would let anybody else sell it

Nobody else was gonna scroll

And that that was lady iry

I am jack bley

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My women said then is a better chill come from the same area

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my clearest memory was a somewhat sad one of going round and giving farewell

It really was a tough time going round with a lump in your throat

i got back to my glider and shut the doors

And right on the dock of twenty two fifty six i was airborne

As soon as we got up to five or six thousand feet

Uh , the men started using their tongues and

And a lot of singing went on

We sang here everything

Everything we could lay our times to said was that it was sheer nerves

But exhilarating nurse , if you know what i mean

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Going through my mind apart from the plan

And what was in a meters the other end

Maybe one couldn't help thinking your family

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It was the peoon commander i was closest with

It was the oldest officer next to me

Most of his petua cockies

And i was london and myself

And felt very much at home with cockmiss

My wife joy and margaret den's wife were pregnant together

And we discussed it quite often

Den and i , he , uh

Was obviously very worried

because the date that mark ke's child was due was a fortnight after deed that

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So about whenever the coast or words to that effect

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We opened the doors of the gliders

Now i could look forward at the fields of france

And it had an amazing tranquilizing effect on me

And it was so quiet

It was like being on an exercise in england

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the glider suddenly did a right hand term

And we came to , uh

What we knew was going to be the toughest moment

A lot the crash land

I could see the glider pilot holding that bloody greg machine

And driving it in at the last minute

Those down great footballs of sweat

Across his forehead and all over his face

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i wasn't prepared for that bump and everything going on quiet

He looked around

poor maybe for a moment there wouldn't the sound

I felt , um

My head had been not rather badly

The first thing i saw was the door disappeared

A completely telescope

I could hear the gladder pilots on my right

moaning

In their cockpit

Which seem to have been smashed

Um , but i was conscious that everybody in the glider was moving

You could hear the click of the safety belts and , um being undone

And i knew that men were getting out of the glider

And people were pushing in front of me to get through the broken door

As i stood there i could see the tower of the bridge

About fifty yards from where i was standing

i suppose that really was the most exhilarating moment of my life

I saw the smoke bomb explode pasar bomb

I heard the thud dd thud in the pillbox

As the grenades exploded

I knew we get no more trouble from there

and the leading gratoon ran across the bridge

We were supposed to meet up with dan broad ridge

Where's ben i don't know

He said i seen it

I haven't seen anything

But only as far as here

I'll start at the run to go round the back end

There he should have been a ramppast

The bloke learn on the floor in the road

But look at him when run on and not stop dead

What is so hang on

Turn back no up down

I just know down beside him

His eyes were open and his lips movie

Just look at him

I'll put me in

I'm the you say to lift them out

Took me hand away and got them not a back

And then i was coming in

I just look in there

i did you just get out that dot

It's so it's sort of low back

Just joke in their back

I just looked to not in the matter

i'm not to him what my product

i don't always so didn't know what it i don't know if it was the block himself

Or all the years of training

He put in to do a job

It only lasted twenty seconds . thirty seconds

First news i got from dense platoon

Was the fact that he had been

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Hit

and that really shot me

and i could see it was fatal

And , um

The fact that i knew that margaret his wife

Was expecting a baby almost any time

And near ented arrived fortnight later

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And whereverybody concerned

John howard and his airborne troops had managed to capture bouville bridge in less than twenty minutes

But now the airborne had to keep hold of it

Whilst they waited for the troops to arrive from sword beach

That was going to be a long night

In those early hours of d day

It wasn't just the british airborne troops who were landing behind enemy lines

Oh suddenly heard are you ready

all the trop was shouted and all at once yeah let's go

The americans dropped six parachute regiments behind enemy lines

On the morning of the d day invasion

About thirteen thousand men

As the shoot popped over

My head snapped forward and my feet came up

My elbow was pushed slightly over my face

The jolt of the opening of shoot

Soon made everything a reality

I looked up at my shot to make sure it was okay

Then looked down and i couldn't see anything but blackness

Tom orcella's regiments mission was to secure two bridges beyond utah beach

One thing that the germans had done was flood fields

In order to turn them into quagmires to slow the allied advance down

Of course the paratroopers dropped into these soaked fields

And found themselves in some cases shoulder are neck deep in cold freezing water

And weighed down by their own equipment

Many of them drowned

I had the shock of my life

I plunged into water

My heart was pounding and my thoughts were running a mile of minute

Hot keepers this war , can i get free my shoot

Am i too heavy will await

Keep me on the bottom

All the training had received

Had not prepared me for such a landing

My eyes strained to see the landmarks

But i could see nothing in the darkness

I was calling and i began to shiver

We realize the time is running out

That we were gonna do anything

We better do it fast

So we moved as fast as we could

we know it was very important that we leave the water before daylight

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In the past weeks german soldiers had been put on alert again and again

Many of them had become complacent

And even in the night

From the fifth to the sixth of june

When the first information went in

That there was a ali parachudrop

The germans did not fully believe that this is the big invasion

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The allies were attacking german defenses right across normandy

And one of their targets was the marville battery

A battery commanded by raymond steiner

The murville battery was a collection of guns within reach of sword beach

The battery was stormed by british glider born infantry

But at the time raymond was a mile away at an observation post

and therefore we could only hear what was happening

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the allies had now started the next phase of the operation

and this was pounding the german coastal defenses with a massive aerial bombardment

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So the plan for d day was that before the landing troops got to the beaches

The atlantic wall in normandy would be absolutely bombarded

What they knew is that it would have dreadful consequences for french civilians

France had been occupied by the nazis for almost four years

At that point to the day

People on those shores and a little bit inland

They didn't see the landings

They heard the landings

They didn't know what it was

It was like these , these rumblings

You know , it , it a thunder

Um , is it some bombardment

I mean , there had been bombardment all throughout nineteen forty four up

So it wasn't completely unfamiliar

But there was something much more intense about it

And as daylight starts to come

then they see that this is

The landings

That something is happening and all their thinking is

Let them land elsewhere

Let them not land where we are

Because that's the most dangerous

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Andrew heinz was quite a typical resister

He was a young man

His whole generation during the occupation was targeted by the forced labor service imposed by the germans

Which involved young men

Has age going to germany to work for for the german military calls

And he was infuriated

He had been seeing the grip of the germans on of the occupation on france for years now

He had been waiting for this day for a long time

But he couldn't have known that this would really be like

And how damaging it would be for the french people

While the allied air forces are pounding the atlantic wall

The american troop ships are anchored several miles off the french coast

These troop ships would contain the main body of the landing forces to hit the normandy beaches

I was down in the bowls of the ship

There were thousands of guys on this ship

And something about a ship

It stinks

Yeah

The , the , the smell

The smell of the kitchen is there

The grease and the smell of the coffee

And u it's very uncomfortable

Very , very crowded

We talked about the life and , um

I expected take care if people were wounded and what would happen to it

We had breakfast about four , thirty am

Then the plane by the beach and the warship shelter

We got on higgins boats on deck

So we didn't have to climb down rope ladder like some other boats

The american army used higgins boats to carry platoons of soldiers from ship to shore

These boats were lowered from the troop ships

But many of the soldiers of course

Would have to scramble down netting to get into them

The boats were rising five to six feet in the air

As they were waiting to take you down , and that's what dropped

Enter the boat

And when all the equipment these guys climbed down

The first way for all the beaches want to get into the channel

And then there was a certain amount of time where they had it actually straight off

While all the bolts will lowered and loaded

until the entire race wave was ready and enlion

everybody got sick

except me

As the boats approached the beaches

The allies launched a massive naval bombabbler

So that by the time the landing forces stepped off their boats

then the guns that would have been firing at them had been destroyed

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And then going over you and then , yeah

Just like a steam roller of fire from the beaches further into the hinterland

It's not only that

It is a terrifying side

It's a huge noise

You hear people screaming

You might see , uh , some of your colleagues dying , perishing , uh , bodies ripped apart

So , um , yeah

It is psychologically , this is one of the most terrifying things soldiers probably can ever experience

Those naval a bombardment on top of the raf was absolutely terrific

It's something everybody well remembered

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On d day lots of things went really , really well

And a few of them didn't

Particularly the naval bombardment and airborne bombardment that preceded the invasion

all visibility and lack of time

And the many german defenses were knocked out

And french civilians living near the targets

Found themselves caught up in the chaos

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All this time they were

They were showing the beaches

And they were boring the beaches and the robert

The guns and the law of the diesels

And the throwing of the big ship itself

You had a shout just to be hed by the guy next to you

I had a very gentle intenant charge of my platon

He asked me what i thought about dying

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For german defenders like franz gulcal

The sight of the approaching armada must have just been terrifying

But despite the fact that the allies had pounded the beaches in advance of the landings

Many of the bunkers remained intact

The german defenders were in place to rain

fire down on the beaches

On the way

And it was rough as you got near the shore

While going in we've seen the rocket ships

Fire oil or rockets

He couldn't see much because i was supposed to keep our heads down and couldn't hear del motors

And the boats always remind me of a bus back home

At this time it was like bots were getting hit

and we got closed and they were starting to fire

In coming

enemy fire was going to come out toward us

That can stoke the smoke and i can hear yelling and carrying on and rose guys

And nearly once in a while like i would look up over the side and say

Oh shit the duck down

And sorry no , it was a good news

I come around there were fifteen meter formula

And they come in mind

And bga coho la france

but all gets

the common

it was a leftidian

We didn't know where we were

We didn't know what to do

the rap went down

and

Your ass hole bug it up

took a deep breath and he started to pray

When we got there it was just the shambles

my friend was down on the deck

And we got on the beach which was covered in buddies

There were tanks coming over and trots coming off and sinking

And then you just turned the way you couldn't look

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