Victory at Sea S1E15 D Day

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00:54And now, D-Day.

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01:04On June the 6th, 1944, an Allied expeditionary force will invade the continent of Europe.

01:13That day must come.

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01:43At Casablanca, in January of 1943, the Allies commit themselves to the liberation of Europe

01:50while their soldiers, sailors, and airmen storm the gates of Tripoli.

01:55North Africa is yet to be won.

01:58But the combined chiefs of staff speak their distant dream to cross the Channel, return to the continent.

02:07The chiefs of state christen the supreme operation with a noble code name, Overlord.

02:14In London, a year later, the supreme commander of Allied expeditionary forces, General Eisenhower,

02:22takes up the task of piercing the heart of Germany and destroying her armed forces.

02:28But across the narrow English Channel lies the ultimate barrier, Hitler's Atlantic Wall,

02:35formidable guardian of Festung Europa, the fortress of Europe.

03:06Field Marshal Rommel, the Desert Fox, one-time hero of the Africa Corps, commands the coastal defense.

03:14He multiplies the fortifications and sows death on the beaches for those who dare transgress.

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03:28But there is no roof on the fortress of Europe,

03:31and assault from the sky begins long months before the day called D.

03:36This is the key that unlocks the gate.

03:40Paralyzed, Germany's war machine pounded the Luftwaffe into impotence.

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04:16And the troops, the men who must finish what the bombers have begun.

04:22Each month, the United States pours 150,000 of her young men onto the British Isles.

04:29All England becomes an armed camp, one vast depot of armament and supplies.

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05:23At the appointed hour, a torrent of materiel and men will be set in motion,

05:28southward to the channel, southward to the embarkation ports,

05:33southward to destiny.

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07:03It is spring, 1944.

07:07The date has been set.

07:10The hour has been chosen.

07:13Men committed to the assault are sealed in ships for secrecy.

07:17Ports, camps, and assembly points are cut off from the outside world.

07:23There is nothing to do but wait on tide and weather.

07:27Wait, and get ready, and keep ready.

07:32And wait, and wait.

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08:05Gentlemen, the King.

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08:28From Falmouth, from Portland, from Plymouth, from Weymouth, the ships depart.

08:36From different ports, the ships sail at varying intervals

08:39to arrive at the five landing beaches together.

08:42Five beaches stretched 60 miles over the coast of France.

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09:07First to invade will be the paratroops.

09:10Their mission is to support the landings.

09:13Intelligence officers have warned the Supreme Commander

09:16that the airborne assault is too hazardous to succeed.

09:19But without it, the landings may fail.

09:23Eisenhower faces a crucial decision.

09:27Should he risk the slaughter of two superb divisions,

09:30or should he cancel the drop and imperil the whole invasion?

09:36He orders the paratroopers to France.

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10:56The gliders go in.

10:58France is below.

11:00There are crack-ups and casualties.

11:02But the paratroopers accomplish their mission.

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11:26The tactical air squadrons fly 5,000 sorties

11:29to support the amphibious assault.

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11:56Four thousand ships will converge on France

11:59with the precision of a dress parade.

12:02The Luftwaffe has been broken.

12:05The U-boats driven from the channel.

12:08The vanguard of 35 divisions moves unmolested toward the beaches.

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12:19Warships prepare to open the assault with a barrage of gunfire.

12:24Battleship Nevada is there,

12:27torpedoed at Pearl Harbor,

12:29a flagship at Normandy.

12:32Naval guns open the Western Front.

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12:44Inside Hitler's Atlantic wall,

12:47the Nazis know what the world is not.

12:50The assault is on.

12:52Defeated in the north.

12:54Defeated in the south.

12:56Defeated in the east.

12:58The Germans have but one hope left.

13:02Destroy the invaders from the west.

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16:19One million tons of concrete float across the channel.

16:23Artificial docks called mulberries

16:25to hide their top secret purpose.

16:28Huge, hollow blocks of cement

16:30that will be sunk offshore, forming piers.

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16:50Few things are predictable in war.

16:53Sometimes casualties are lightest,

16:55where heaviest losses are expected.

16:58And often the worst fighting takes place

17:01where none is anticipated.

17:04But whichever way the battle turns,

17:07each man must face his ordeal alone.

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17:47Fifty-four merchant ships are deliberately sunk

17:49to build a breakwater that shelters the shore under its lead.

17:53Together with the mulberry units,

17:55they form a man-made harbor.

17:58Tons of supplies pour in with the invading troops,

18:01not afterwards when it might be too late.

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18:14Human ingenuity rises to the challenge of invasion.

18:19But one factor, one all-important factor,

18:24remains beyond human control.

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19:19But the might of the German Army, Navy, and Air Force

19:23is unable to do.

19:25The worst channel storm in 80 years almost does.

19:29But the invaders hold the beaches.

19:33And in the ports of England, wave after wave is mounted

19:36to build and broaden the landings.

19:39The Allied Expeditionary Naval Forces

19:41execute their mission to assure the safe and timely arrival

19:44of troops, weapons, supplies.

19:48A mission which will have a profound effect

19:51on the history of man.

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20:08This program will be interrupted from time to time

20:11to bring you the latest news bulletins

20:13as they are received in the newsroom.

20:15Keep tuned to your favorite NBC station

20:18to keep in step with all the latest developments

20:20on this Invasion Day.

20:22Now the orchestra opens the program

20:24with a revival of an old hit, Blue Room.

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20:43Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt this program

20:45to bring you a special broadcast.

20:48This is George Hicks speaking.

20:50We are now speaking from the tower above the signal bridge

20:53of an American naval flagship.

20:55And we're lying some few miles off the coast of France

20:58where the invasion of Europe has begun.

21:01It is now 20 minutes to 6.

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21:52Behind the landings, Allied planes release a barrier of bombs

21:56that cut off German reinforcements,

21:58paralyze German counter moves.

22:01Every road, every bridge, every rail line, every canal

22:07all the way back into Germany is smashed,

22:10isolating the French beaches.

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22:54Every 75 yards, a landing craft heads for the shore

22:57and touches down.

22:59Resistance is furious from German suicide squads,

23:02but the Americans go in and hang on by their guts.

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23:32Veterans of Dunkirk return to France,

23:35this time to stay.

23:38The British soldiers who beat Rommel on the sands of Africa

23:41help destroy him on the sands of Europe.

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24:59The architects of invasion view their work.

25:02Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsey,

25:05Commander of Allied Naval Forces.

25:08Commander of American Naval Forces, Admiral Stark.

25:12Lieutenant General Omar Bradley,

25:14Commander of the First United States Army.

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25:23Field Marshal Montgomery of El Alamein,

25:25Commander of Allied Ground Forces.

25:30After invasion, the breakout,

25:33the swelling Allied armies stream inland into Europe.

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25:53Behind the survivors lie those who died to enslave the world.

26:00And those who died to free it.

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