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Tales from D-Day

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Author and historian Giles Milton describes some dramatic but lesser-known stories of soldiers and civilians who were involved in the Normandy landings of June 1944 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The statistics that they're just massive.

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You can't really get your head round them.

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7,000 big ships were involved, 12,000 planes were involved.

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And on D-Day itself, 156,000 men were due to be landed on those beaches.

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So, you know, it was nothing had ever been attempted, you know, like this before in the history of warfare.

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