Episode 18S Normandy Invasion Special
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Join Us in France Travel Podcast
In this special episode on D-Day History and the Normandy Invasion, Annie and Elyse remember the events of D-Day seventy years ago and the bravery of people involved. Elyse puts the whole tragic day into context: events leading up to it and a few critical details of what happened on that day. Then we share our experiences visiting the beaches in Normandy, the museums, the cemeteries. This is definitely a sobering and emotional topic, but seventy years later we should ask again: Are French grateful today? What are you likely to experience when you visit? Did this day truly change the course of time?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a special episode for D-Day. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, I'm Annie and I'm Elise. |
| 0:07.0 | And today, like I said, we are recording a special episode |
| 0:10.0 | to honor the anniversary, the 70th anniversary of D Day, which will be heavily celebrated all over France |
| 0:19.3 | and probably England and probably the United States as well as well many countries and so we |
| 0:26.1 | wanted to mark the 70th anniversary because that's a pretty big deal yeah it's a very big |
| 0:31.8 | deal I think so at least in order to keep this short, why don't we just keep, go right into it? No music today. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay. So maybe, let's start with the beginning, which is, let's assume that people aren't really |
| 0:47.0 | sure what we're talking about when we talk about D-Day? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, some people may not know. |
| 0:51.6 | They might not know. And so of course D-Day is the day of the |
| 0:59.7 | invasion, if you will, of France by the Allied forces in an attempt to push back the Germans who were |
| 1:10.1 | occupying all of Western Europe. |
| 1:13.2 | And it is D-Day, Destination Day, De Barkman-T today. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes. |
| 1:18.6 | It's the day. |
| 1:20.2 | It's the day that, of course course has gone down in history. |
| 1:24.0 | If you want to have a cinema reference, you have two films that you can actually see. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. One is the very famous film by Stephen Spielberg from 1998 called |
| 1:36.7 | Saving Sergeant Ryan. |
| 1:38.4 | Private Ryan. |
| 1:39.4 | Ooh, I promoted him, I guess I, it's okay. his brothers were actually sergeants I was |
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