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Audio

D-Day Voices

D-Day voices is a special selection of inteviews made with British & American veterans by BBC reporter Dennis Skillicorn, most were recorded during the 30th Anniversary in 1974

  • Track 1 - Account of the first soldiers to land on a Normandy beach in the early hours.
  • Track 2 - A Royal Marine tells of arriving in the landing craft.
  • Track 3 - A soldier's account of a bizarre incident in the midst of the battle.
  • Track 4 - Soldiers of both sides and a French civilian recount their memories of the initial landings.
  • Track 5 - The Mad Piper of Normandy recounts landing on the beaches and later arriving at Pegasus Bridge.
  • Track 6 - A group of veterans describe Horsa gliders packed with troops landing at Pegasus Bridge.
  • Track 7 - Tales of bloody Omaha & Utah beaches from a US soldier and a British seaman who took them in.
  • Track 8 - A French civilian who watched the 82nd US Airborne Division dropping into Ste. Mere Eglise.
  • Track 9 - A British soldier whose tank was hit in the middle of a mine field.
  • Track 10 - A British army medic returns to a graveyard known as Jerusalem.
  • Track 11 - A British seaman who cared for the wounded of both sides on board a ship heading back to England.
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