Operation Overlord
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Oct 29, 2026
ChristianHOST
Yeah.
ZachHOST
And then according to Military.com, the 30th Assault Unit did go to hunt Nazi intelligence secrets, but after D-Day, they moved in with the forces on Operation Overlord.
ChristianHOST
Yep.
ChristianHOST
Yep.
Johnny JohnsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And it was then that the tactical air power came into its own, the Spitfires and the Typhoons, and decimated an army.
Johnny JohnsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Battle of Normandy was really won by the tactical air forces, not the army, it was won by the tactical air forces, just as Desert Storm was won by the tactical air forces, by tactical air power, and not the army.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
For the Germans, what became known as the Falaise Gap had been a catastrophe.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
60,000 men were either killed or taken prisoner.
Francis DearnleyHOST
It really reminded me, Dom, of when we were above Omaha Beach for the 80th anniversary of D-Day hearing.
Francis DearnleyHOST
Mr. Biden saying the values that American servicemen and women had died for in Operation Overlord were being fought for in Ukraine today.
Francis DearnleyHOST
How much things have changed.
Francis DearnleyHOST
But on a brighter note, it did also remind me of when I overheard somebody at that same event ask a man in medals, what do you do? To which he replied, I'm the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.
Charleston WhiteGUEST
half to go.
Charleston WhiteGUEST
This is World War II when this is the Battle of Normandy.
Charleston WhiteGUEST
The weather was bad.
Charleston WhiteGUEST
The Americans couldn't predict that the seas and the water was going to be this tremendous and violent.
Nick AndersonHOST
Colton Kirshen, that's the place.
Nick AndersonHOST
Its many other achievements include attacking airfields, marshalling yards, ball-bearing factories and oil refineries, V-weapon sites, and also flying in support of Operation Overlord, which was the invasion, and Market Garden, which was a bridge too far, as you'll probably recall.
Nick AndersonHOST
an attempt to leapfrog and cross the Rhine.
Nick AndersonHOST
It served in the Korean War, flying B-26 invaders, and later became part of the strategic airlift effort, flying C-119 boxcars.
John BatchelorHOST
He's a Republican, part of the cabinet of FDR.
John BatchelorHOST
They come to Churchill in the Rose Bedroom, and you're very keen to highlight that because later on Eisenhower will be leading Torch, the invasion of North Africa, and then leading Overlord, the invasion of Northeast France.
John BatchelorHOST
Does Eisenhower have a memory of how Churchill treated him? Because your book says that Churchill doesn't remember that first meeting.
John BatchelorHOST
What does Eisenhower say about it, Professor? Sure.
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John BatchelorHOST
There are reasons for it, of course.
John BatchelorHOST
There's the Italian campaign, the capture of Rome in June of 1944.
John BatchelorHOST
There's Overlord itself and the grind, that Battle of Normandy that lasts until Paris is liberated in August.
John BatchelorHOST
And then there are catastrophes as the American army takes huge casualties all the way to the end of the war.
KevinHOST
Yeah, exactly.
KevinHOST
It was right next to Operation Overlord over there.
KevinHOST
The boss giving birth to revolver us a lot.
KevinHOST
That's the
speaker_1HOST
We're going beyond the standard textbook narrative of D-Day and the breakout that followed.
speaker_2HOST
We really want to get into the fog, the friction, and all that hidden logistical history of Operation Overlord.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, because the stakes of that stormy night were astronomical.
speaker_1HOST
Hitler and his high command, they know an invasion is coming, right?
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speaker_1HOST
And then General Dwight D. Eisenhower looks up and simply says, let's go.
speaker_2HOST
And the gravity of that single decision sets everything in motion.
speaker_2HOST
Operation Overlord doesn't actually begin with a landing craft hitting a beach.
speaker_1HOST
No, it begins in the pitch black of the night sky.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
It goes through the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
It goes through the Battle of Normandy.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
It goes through Churchill standing against Hitler alone.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
throughout 1940 and 1941 to save Western civilization.
TomHOST
Like, it provokes different responses.
TomHOST
It's like why there are a lot of people who would be happy to read a book about Operation Overlord that cannot sit through the opening of Saving Private Ryan.
KateHOST
Yeah.
KateHOST
Okay.
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