Good evening: The show begins in Italy, the allied campaign to capture Rome, December 1943-June 1944...
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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Good evening: The show begins in Italy, the allied campaign to capture Rome, December 1943-June 1944...
CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor
First Hour
9:00-9:15 (1/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
9:15-9:30 (2/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
9:30-9:45 (3/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
9:45-10:00 (4/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
Second Hour
10:00-10:15 (5/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
10:15-10:30 (6/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
10:30-10:45 (7/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
10:45-11:00 (8/8): Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome - James Holland (Author)
Third Hour
11:00-11:15 (1/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
11:15-11:30 (2/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
11:30-11:45 (3/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
11:45-12:00 (4/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
Fourth Hour
12:00-12:15 (5/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
12:15-12:30 (6/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
12:30-12:45 (7/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
12:45-1:00 AM (8/8): The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower - Michel Paradis (Author)
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| 1:02.3 | end of the war. However, I remember 1945 and 44 because my children, their grandfathers, served in the two battles I feature in tonight's program. |
| 1:17.3 | My wife's father, or Lieutenant J.T. Rossboro, served in the Italian campaign with an armor unit. |
| 1:24.9 | There is a bronze star up on the wall presented to him for reinforcing and providing |
| 1:31.5 | supplies to the column as it worked its way through the mountains towards what became the |
| 1:37.6 | battle for casino and then on from then to Rome. My father, Lieutenant Calvin R. Bachelor, 299th Combat Engineers, landing on Omaha Beach, |
| 1:50.0 | easy red, if you know the designations, in what was called a Gap Assault Team, the mission for |
| 1:57.7 | the combat engineers, half Navy, half army, |
| 2:08.1 | was to destroy the underwater obstacles early in the invasion, each hour plus an hour, |
| 2:12.6 | so that the big ships coming in with the high tide wouldn't get ripped apart. |
| 2:14.0 | That was the mission. |
| 2:21.5 | Didn't go very well because the fire was so brutal. They couldn't much deploy their C-4. And in any event, most of the troops who were landing were hiding behind the obstacles. |
| 2:28.3 | That was the only cover they had. So I chose the light of battle, a story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, |
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