War Correspondent recordings

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  1. roodymiller

    roodymiller Senior Member

    Does anyone have the following CD?

    D-Day and the Battle of Normany June 1944 (sound recordings) on audio CD on CD41

    I am after two of the recordings:

    AIRBORNE TROOPS TAKE OFF (3.10)
    Commentary by Richard Dimbleby as paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division leave England on board troop carrying aircraft, bound for drop zones behind Ouistreham and Sword Beach, recorded 5 June 1944. One of the aircraft watched by Dimbleby carried his fellow war correspondent, Guy Byam (see below). The task of the 6th Airborne was to establish a bridgehead across the River Orne and the Caen Canal, midway between the strategic city of Caen and the Normandy coast, and to protect the eastern flank of the seaborne landings. Specific tasks included the seizure of the Benouville (Pegasus) and Ranville (Horsa) bridges, and the destruction of the heavy German battery at Merville. The first airborne pathfinder aircraft took off from Harwell at 23.03 on 5 June; the first transports and gliders left airfields in southern England at about 23.30 hours, landing in France an hour later.

    JUMP INTO ACTION: 6TH AIRBORNE DIVISION (3.03)
    Despatch by BBC war correspondent Guy Byam, who jumped over Normandy during the overnight assault with paratroops of the 6th Airborne Division. Recorded 8 June 1944. He describes prayers, emplaning, the (standing-room only) flight to Normandy, anti-aircraft fire, the jump into action, finding himself lost on landing, and asking for directions at a French farmhouse. Guy Byam had already survived the sinking of HMS Jervis Bay by the German pocket Admiral Scheer in 1940, and later jumped into Arnhem, but was killed during a US 8th Air Force road on Berlin on 3 February 1945. It seems inconceivable that any journalist would be allowed to take equivalent risks today.

    I have found shortened versions on the net of both, but would like the full recordings or transcripts of.....

    If no-one has, then I'll have to stick my hand in my pocket!

    Thanks

    Andrew.
     
    roodymiller, Aug 30, 2010
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  2. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I've read about this one & would love to hear it. As it is mentioned in books on 43 Wessex Div.
    EPSOM: ADVANCE TOWARDS GRANVILLE (3.19)
    Commentary by Chester Wilmot recorded near the village of Cheux on 26 June 1944. Against a background of actuality battle noise Wilmot is describing the opening stages of the advance of the 'furious Scotsmen' of the 15th (Scottish) Division, Wessex and 11th Armoured Division south towards Granville-sur-Odon. This attack formed part of Epsom, the disasterous operation intended as a five mile hook around the south of Caen in order to isolate the city. However the Channel gale delayed Epsom by three days until 26 June, and the attack stalled in the face of heavy rain (which in turn reduced air support), and determined resistance from several German armoured divisions, including 21st Panzer, Panzer Lehr and SS Hitlerjugend. Epsom was called off on 30 June, having incurred heavy (4000) casualties, but tying down German forces which assisted in the American breakout and advance on Cherbourg
     
    Owen, Aug 30, 2010
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  3. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Panel 292 with G.Byam from Runnymede attached

    Reporter GUY BYAM

    British Broadcasting Corporation, War Correspondent
    who died
    on 03 February 1945

    Remembered with honour
    RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
     

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  4. sapper

    sapper WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    I have the invasion. the bombing of Caen. The ringing of the shelled church bells of Hermanville on D day. all on tape, they are a bit rough. And a tape of the little Sparrow singing "Jatendrai" in war time France.
     
    sapper, Aug 31, 2010
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  5. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

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