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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's 1944 - 3 days after D-Day. 22-year old Guy Stern lands in Normandy. Unlike many of his comrades in the US Army, it's not his first time in Europe. Forced to leave Germany in 1937, he returns as part of an elite Military Intelligence unit charged with interrogating German POWs in their native tongue. Now 99 years old, Guy tells Vanessa Kirby a story of wit and courage in the face of unimaginable pressure. Could YOUR words win a war? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.8	We are going into unknown country, unknown conditions, unknown enemies.
0:41.2	This is True Spies.
0:46.0	Avisote 68. The Richie Boys.
0:49.2	It's the 9th of June, 1944.
0:58.8	As is known by everyone who reads a history book, we invaded Normandy on a day that was not fixed long in advance, but depended on the weather.
1:10.8	It's three days after D-Day, the invasion of occupied Normandy by Allied forces.
1:23.2	But D-Day doesn't happen all at once.
1:25.2	For around a week afterwards, landing craft and the churn of boots better the dark green seed of foam.
1:32.4	Needless to say, the air is thick with bullets.
1:43.6	Every soldier was in the same boat we had no foothold yet on our territory and the coast to be invaded.
1:55.2	It's here that we find this week's True Spies.
1:58.0	He is one of an exclusive body of passengers making land in one of the US Navy's lightweight PT torpedo boats.
2:07.2	He's 22 years old with dark hair and expressive eyes.
2:12.0	Right now, they're expressing that he's scared out of his mind.
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