D-Day Heroes: The Green Howards

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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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0:23.0	The Open University, the future is open. Today marks 78 years since D-Day.
0:45.0	That day when the spearhead of Operation Overlord,
0:48.0	around 156,000 Allied troops landed along five beaches in Normandy France, and of great generals like Eisenhower and Monte or the overall battles and strategy,
1:05.6	we rarely focus in on the experience of the men who fought and lost their lives.
1:11.3	I'm your host James Rogers. This is the Warfare Podcast and to tell the
1:15.5	individual stories of soldiers on D-Day we've chosen to focus in on the
1:20.6	sixth and seventh Green Howards. A remarkable battalion who fought their way off Gold Beach,
1:27.0	won the only VC on D-Day and managed to make it over 10 kilometers inland further than any other British or American unit.
1:37.0	Now I spent the last week in Normandy tracing the steps of the Greenhowers from Gold Beach and along every battle inland for our new history hit TV
1:46.2	documentary which is out today.
1:49.2	And while I was there I met with battlefield historian Eric Turnbull.
1:53.5	Eric is one hell of a character who knows all those amazing little details
1:58.0	you want a battlefield historian to know.
2:00.5	So I invited him on the podcast to tell us about the mighty Green Howards.
2:05.0	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 Tik-Tock at James Rogers history, but now here is
2:15.9	Eric Turnbull on the Green Howards. Enjoy. Hi Eric, welcome to the Warfare Podcast, how you doing? Good morning, James. Very well.
2:33.0	Typical Norman Day, unfortunately.
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