92 - D-Day: Omaha

The WW2 Podcast

Angus Wallace

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

'Before the war, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took one look at the gentle, sloping sands and announced 'They will come here!' He was referring to Omaha Beach ‒ the primary American D-Day landing site. The beach was subsequently transformed into three miles of lethal, bunker-protected arcs of fire, with chalets converted into concrete strongpoints, fringed by layers of barbed wire and mines. The Germans called it 'the Devil's Garden'.'

In this episode I'm joined by Robert Kershaw military historian, battlefield guide and author of Fury of Battle: A D-Day landing as it happened. We discuss the American landings on D-Day at Omaha beach.

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace
0:35.2	usually I'm dreadful at releasing episodes of the podcast to hit anniversaries
0:40.3	but for once I've succeeded. 75 years ago this June the Allied Armada set off from
0:47.0	Britain with the aim of landing a force in France the first step toward the
0:52.1	recapture of Western Europe. The operation was
0:55.6	Overlord now better known as D-Day. In this episode I'm joined by Robert Kirshaw
1:01.6	Robert is a military historian, battlefield guide, and author of
1:06.0	Fury of Battle, a D-Day landing as it happened, which follows the American landings on the
1:12.2	morning of 6th of June at Omaha Beach.
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