Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 160,000 troops participated in the invasion of Normandy. Today just a few thousand of these veterans are still alive, with the youngest in their late nineties. As their voices, and those of the million combatants and leaders who swept into motion across Europe 80 years ago, fall silent and pass from living history, Garrett Graff has captured and compiled them in a new book: When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. Drawing on his project of sifting through and synthesizing 5,000 oral histories, today Garrett takes us back to what was arguably the most consequential day in modern history and helps unpack the truly epic sweep of the operation, which was hard to fathom even then, and has become even more difficult to grasp with the passage of time. We talk about how unbelievably involved the planning process for D-Day was, stories you may never have heard before, a couple of the myths around D-Day, and the sacrificial heroism born of this event that continues to live on.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness
0:10.4	podcast on D day June 6, 1944, 160,000 troops participated in the invasion of Normandy.
0:18.0	Today, just a few thousand of these veterans are still alive, with the youngest in their late 90s.
0:23.0	As their voices and those the million combatants of leaders who swept into motion
0:26.6	across Europe 80 years ago, while silent and passed from living history,
0:30.4	Garrett Graf has captured and compiled them in a new book,
0:33.0	When the Sea came alive, an oral history of D-Day.
0:36.0	Drawing on his project of sifting through and synthesizing 5,000 oral histories,
0:40.0	today Garrett takes us back to what was arguably the most consequential day in modern history and helps
0:45.3	impact the truly epic sweep of the operation, which was hard to fathom even then and has become
0:50.3	even more difficult to grasp at the passage of time.
0:53.1	We talk about how unbelievably involved the planning process for D-Day was, stories you
0:57.1	may never have heard before, a couple of miss around D-Day, and the sacrificial heroism
1:01.6	born in this event that continues to live on.
1:03.7	After the show is over check at our show notes at Awim.
1:06.2	I.S. slash Normandy. Garrett Graf, welcome to the show.
1:17.0	Thanks so much for having me.
1:21.6	So it is the 80th anniversary of D-Day,
1:25.3	the invasion of Normandy,
1:26.6	where the Allied forces crossed the English Channel
1:29.4	and started at a Western Front in World War II in Europe and you got a new book out about that day.
1:37.2	It's called When the Sea Came Alive, an oral history of D-Day.
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