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What we lose when D-Day veterans are gone

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I’ve tried to put myself in the place of those who listened to radio reports 80 years ago.

If you search enough on the internet, you can find a recording of the complete CBS radio broadcast from D-Day, June 6, 1944, beginning about an hour after the network’s news team came on the air shortly after midnight to share German radio reports about an invasion.

The commentators caution repeatedly that these reports may be nothing but a ploy by Nazi leaders to lure local underground fighters from their hiding places and into the open, where they could be destroyed. And yet their voices carry a hint of hope and excitement. They seem happy to go without sleep for this.

It’s 3:32 a.m., eastern war time, when the broadcast cuts to a terse statement out of London by Col. R. Ernest Dupuy of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. “Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France,” he said.

“This,” a CBS reporter tells listeners, “means invasion.”

In this June 5, 1944, file photo, U.S. serviceman attend a Protestant service aboard a landing craft before the D-Day invasion on the coast of France. June 6, 2019, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the assault that began the liberation of France and Europe from German occupation, leading to the end World War II. Unit patches were scratched out by military censors at the time. | Pete J. Carroll, Associated Press
Landing craft loaded for invasion assault LCTs are loaded with half tracks and other armored vehicles by American Troops, at an Embarkation point in England on June 6, 1944 just before they set sail for the D-day invasion of the French coast. | Associated Press
Glider borne troops crossing the Channel ships of the Royal Navy on June 6, 1944. In the background are the battleships Warspite and Ramillies. | British Official via Associated Press
Landing craft loaded with American troops pass other landing craft lining the dock side while in foreground, other craft take on equipment on June 6, 1944. | Associated Press
In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard landing barge, tightly packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the shore at Normandy, France, during initial Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. | U.S. Coast Guard via Associated Press
In this June 6, 1944 file picture, Allied troops come ashore in the surf and vehicles start inland on the German-held beach of Normandy, France during World War II. | Associated Press
Ducks (amphibious trucks) and a half-track follow foot troops ashore during the World War II opening invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy coast by Allied forces on June 6, 1944. | U.S. Coast Guard via Associated Press
Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion, June 6, 1944. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte Mere Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses. | Louis Weintraub, Associated Press
This is the scene along a section of Omaha Beach in June 1944, during Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion at the Normandy coast in France during World War II. The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. | Associated Press
Soldiers of the 2nd Canadian Flotilla are carrying bicycles as they disembark their LCI’s at a beachhead code-named Juno Beach, at Bernieres-sur-mer, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy on June 6, 1944. | Associated Press
After landing at the shore, these British troops wait for the signal to move forward, during the initial Allied landing operations in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. | Associated Press
British troops make their way through low water and up the beach after leaving landing craft which transported them across the Channel to the Normandy beachhead for D-Day invasion in France, June 6, 1944 in World War II. | British Official photo via Associated Press
The Hulks of wrecked landing craft lie on the beach (foreground) and sunken vessels which formed breakwater for ships in the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach, Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, lie offshore in quiet which contrasts with the fierce fighting when the allies first invaded the Fortress Europe from across the Channel. Many of the scars of battle have been erased, but these Hulks remain as beachhead a year after D-Day. | Peter J. Carroll, Associated Press
In this photo provided by the British Navy, wounded British troops from the South…



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