D-Day Heroes: The Green Howards

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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There was only one Victoria Cross awarded on the 6th June 1944, D-Day. It went to Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis of the 6th Battalion of the Green Howards. Alongside the 7th Battalion of the same regiment, the 6th were to advance 7 miles inland on the first day of Operation Overlord, the furthest of any other forces from Britain and the United States.

To explore the actions of the individuals from the Green Howards who made this advance, including the 180 who lost their lives in doing so, James spoke to Eric Le Doux-Turnbull. Eric runs D-Day Landing private tours and is one of the contributors for the History Hit TV special on the D-Day landings.

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0:38.6	Everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History. I've got an episode of Warfare for you today. It's some special military history podcast. Go and subscribe.
0:45.7	Where have you get your pods presented by Dr James Rogers? It covers, well, Warfare from the early modern period, but particularly first and second.
0:54.1	I've been working on Warfare recently, but recently I've been working on Ukraine as well. It's fascinating stuff. You get great guests. Enjoy this episode. It's an eye opener.
1:11.1	Today marks 78 years since D-Day. That day when the spearhead of Operation Overlord, around 156,000 Allied troops,
1:20.7	landed along five beaches in Normandy, France to begin the liberation of Europe.
1:26.7	But while we often focus on the decision making of great generals like Eisenhower and Monty, or the overall battles and strategy,
1:34.7	we rarely focus in on the experience of the men who fought and lost their lives.
1:40.7	On your host, James Rogers, this is the Warfare podcast, and to tell the individual stories of soldiers on D-Day, we've chosen to focus in on the 6th and 7th Green Howers,
1:51.7	a remarkable battalion who fought their way off Goldbeach, won the only VC on D-Day, and managed to make it over 10 kilometres inland, further than any other British or American unit.
2:05.7	Now, I spent the last week in Normandy tracing the steps of the Green Howers from Goldbeach and along every battle in land for our new history hit TV documentary, which is out today.
2:17.7	And while I was there, I met with Battlefield Historian, Eric Turmbl.
2:21.7	Eric is one hell of a character who knows all those amazing little details you want a Battlefield Historian to know.
2:28.7	So, I invited him on the podcast to tell us about the mighty Green Howers.
2:33.7	If you want to access the new film, then head over to historyhit.com and follow along on my journey through Normandy on Instagram and TikTok at James Rogers History.
2:43.7	But now, here is Eric Turmbl on the Green Howers. Enjoy!
2:56.7	Hi, Eric. Welcome to the Warfare podcast. How you doing?
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