Captured, injured, in the control bunker: Veterans remember D-Day 80 years on
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Host Niall Paterson explores the stories of radio operator Marie Scott, Ken Hay who served in the 43rd Essex regiment and landed on the beaches, and Bill Gladden of the 6th Airborne Reconnaissance Regiment who flew into Normandy on a glider.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:01.8 | It was, with hindsight, the beginning of the end. 80 years ago this week, with the Second World War |
| 1:08.8 | raging in every corner of the globe, Allied troops |
| 1:12.0 | began the liberation of Europe and the end of Nazi Germany. |
| 1:21.5 | Allied troops from Britain, the United States and Canada were supported by Australian, Belgium, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, |
| 1:30.9 | New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian and Polish naval air and ground support. |
| 1:42.2 | Tens of thousands landed on five beaches in Normandy. |
| 1:46.0 | Airborne forces dropped behind enemy lines. |
| 1:49.0 | What I heard was gunfire of every description, machine guns, |
| 1:57.0 | cannon, bombs. |
| 2:00.0 | It was a bloody battle, for some, a massacre. |
| 2:04.8 | Thousands lost their lives, many before even stepping foot on dry land. |
| 2:10.4 | Yet by nightfall, on the 6th of June 1944, |
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