Great story about the rediscovery of original combat recording from Normandy on D-Day. Would love to hear it......... Battle
"Back home, his D-Day report was a sensation. It was 13 minutes and 29 seconds in total.
It was played on stations across the country, starting on June 7, said Matthew Barton, a recorded sound curator at the Library of Congress.
"I believe this will be regarded as one of the greatest records of the whole war," New York columnist Zoe Beckley wrote a few weeks later. "If you heard it, it probably left you limp.""
"Back home, his D-Day report was a sensation. It was 13 minutes and 29 seconds in total.
It was played on stations across the country, starting on June 7, said Matthew Barton, a recorded sound curator at the Library of Congress.
"I believe this will be regarded as one of the greatest records of the whole war," New York columnist Zoe Beckley wrote a few weeks later. "If you heard it, it probably left you limp.""