Airborne Assault On D-Day: From the Archive

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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June 6th, 1944...D-Day. It was the greatest military assault ever staged. Code named Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Normandy by the Allies involved more than a quarter of a million soldiers, sailors and airmen as well as 5000 ships and 3000 aircraft. Tom McCarthy and Francis Lamoureux were Parachute Infantrymen during the epic conflict. They tell their riveting first-hand accounts in this dramatic presentation, Airborne Assault on D-Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.3	D-Day, 1944. In the darkness of a war-torn Germany, planes can be heard.
1:36.3	A few men jump out and parachute into the dark abyss below.
1:41.3	These are the men who go into action before the paratroopers, before the landing troops.
1:47.0	They are the U.S. Army's pathfinders, responsible for establishing a towhold and marking the drop
1:52.9	zones for the paratroopers. Landing in the black of night, they set up radar beacons
1:58.2	and lit the fires that would guide the men who would turn the tide of war.
2:02.6	Tom McCarthy was a sergeant in the American 82nd Airborne.
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