Episode 254 MAYOR HIRSCH ( Part 2 ) Operation Overlord ( 6 - Part Special Series )

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Operation Overlord, known to the world as D-Day, was the beginning of the end for the Nazi Regime of Adolf Hitler. It was the start of the Allied march across the European Continent. Bob Hirsch had not yet arrived in England in time to take part in the invasion. However, a decade ago he sat down with Rod Gragg of Coastal Carolina University and participated in several interviews about his experiences as a pilot that carried paratroopers over enemy lines. Those interviews were a part of two videos we are using in this series : "Military Memoirs" and "A Salute to American Veterans : Death Drop and the 82nd Airborne in the D-Day Battle of Normandy"
The latter video, "Death Drop" , is an extraordinary look at the air campaign that was such a major part of the success of D-Day. In this episode we have attempted to take our former Mayor's extraordinary insights of the air and paratrooper campaign and combine it with a fascinating look at D-Day Veterans and their account of those events from a documentary titled "D-Day, Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944 Volume One" by Voices of History and documentarian Larry Cappetto.
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These veterans were on the ground or in the boats who came ashore on the beach's of France. We also found several radio broadcasts recorded live in the middle of the night on June 6, as the folks on the Homefront were trying to find out for sure if the invasion had actually begun.
I hope to give you a feel for how everyone felt, and what they dealt with as this historic day unfolded, be it from the air, ground, or back home, worrying about the boys so far from home.
This episode also sets the stage for the situations to come for our former Mayor, Bob Hirsch, as he arrived on the seen to take part in the final crusade to liberate the enslaved people of Europe.

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1. thank you message from the podcast producer, Randal Wallace (00:00:00)

2. Interview with Mayor Bob Hirsch " Landing on a field in France " (00:00:32)

3. Intro Music WW2 Era (00:02:30)

4. D-Day Invasion "Operation Overlord" History Timelines, and maps - Past to Future (00:03:05)

5. A Salute to Veterans "Death Drop and the 82nd Airborne in the D-Day Battle of Normandy - Rod Gragg production for Coastal Carolina University featuring Robert Hirsch (00:07:33)

6. D-Day Omaha Beach June 6, 1944 Volume 1 - Voices of History - Larry Cappetto - segments "Getting Ready" " German Panzer Division there by accident" "Rocky Water bad weather" "Size of the operation" (00:18:49)

7. D-Day Radio Broadcast Part 1 - 0250 AM - Bob Trout CBS News (00:26:30)

8. D-Day Radio Broadcast Part 1 - 0250 AM - Report from London by Edward R. Murrow (00:33:26)

9. D-Day Omaha Beach June 6, 1944 Volume 1 - Voices of History - Larry Cappetto - segments "Landing on the Beach - the Big Picture" (00:38:32)

10. A Salute to Veterans "Death Drop and the 82nd Airborne in the D-Day Battle of Normandy - Rod Gragg production for Coastal Carolina University featuring Robert Hirsch (00:40:08)

11. D-Day Invasion "Operation Overlord" History Timelines, and maps - Past to Future (00:44:39)

12. Closing music Special World War 2 Era (00:47:52)