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Sep 11, 2026
Alice RobertsHOST
In the early hours of 6 June 1944, the men of Easy Company were dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy.
Alice RobertsHOST
Their mission to seize key bridges and clear routes leading away from Utah Beach to allow safe passage of US ground troops who would arrive by sea just a few hours later.
Alice RobertsHOST
The plan went awry, with many missing their drop zone.
Alice RobertsHOST
But they still managed to capture and destroy four German field guns, saving countless Allied lives.
ChrisHOST
And I think, you know, that's one of the themes of D-Day and that Band of Brothers captures really well.
ChrisHOST
And it's, you look back at D-Day and we see all the maps with the arrows on them and we know where Utah Beach is, Omaha Beach, where the airborne divisions were supposed to land.
ChrisHOST
And more importantly...
ChrisHOST
We know that ultimately the invasion succeeds, but those men, none of them know that.
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ChrisHOST
It's almost the opposite.
ChrisHOST
He's got a problem.
ChrisHOST
There are German guns firing onto Utah Beach.
ChrisHOST
He's got limited manpower, limited information, and no opportunity to sit around waiting for someone else to solve it.
Chris WhiteHOST
Now, the 101st Airborne Division will see its first action in Normandy.
Chris WhiteHOST
But man, if you go up and down the Utah Beach and Omaha Beach, there's so many ties to the Revolutionary War unit lineages, especially the Civil War.
Chris WhiteHOST
So there's a lot of ties to it.
Chris WhiteHOST
Plus, I mean, this is one of the miniseries that legitimately sweeps the world.
Nick FerrariHOST
But what are you going to do about the latter half of that statement, Minister? What was a 25, 30 mile...
Nick FerrariHOST
A 30 mile crossing in duration? You're now nudging 70 miles, as they said, off from Utah Beach.
Nick FerrariHOST
More people will drown.
Nick FerrariHOST
And then more anger, as it would appear, much of the South Coast is to be targeted.
Matt BoneGUEST
pilots, which is crap, because a lot of them were airline pilots with tens of thousands of hours.
Matt BoneGUEST
What is important with that story is, as you were saying before, the transports circle around, form up, and they don't head directly, in the case of the 9th, to the Kosovo Peninsula to drop in behind Omaha and Utah.
Matt BoneGUEST
What they do is they angle out to the west.
Matt BoneGUEST
So they go out into the channel and basically the channel islands is their initial point.
Scott McGaughGUEST
But for those first few days or weeks, very intense resupply air missions until the ground situation stabilized enough.
Scott McGaughGUEST
that ships were arriving on Utah Beach with supplies and French airfields were being secured and operated by the Allies.
Scott McGaughGUEST
So a lot of it had to do then, depending upon the time between missions, like fighter pilots and bomber pilots to some extent, maintaining their edge, you know, training.
Scott McGaughGUEST
Guys would, you know, rotate back to the States after so many months and so many missions.
Tail DraggerHOST
Put that photograph next to the wartime ones and it takes a moment to sort out which is which.
Tail DraggerHOST
They flew her over the beaches, Omaha, Utah, the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc over the fields where the paratroopers came down in the dark 75 years before.
Tail DraggerHOST
At the ceremony at the American Cemetery above Omaha Beach, veterans of the airborne divisions were there, men in their late 90s, the last of them, watching from their wheelchairs as a C-47 came over in the invasion stripes and the name they knew.
Tail DraggerHOST
I do not know what word you use for that.
Ray GuarendiHOST
Some of you have 18, 19, 20-year-old sons.
Ray GuarendiHOST
Can you imagine them 100 yards from Utah Beach or Gold Beach or Omaha Beach in Normandy, wading through the water, being dropped off by troop carriers and just getting blasted by the guns sitting up on the cliffs, the pillboxes from the German Army.
Ray GuarendiHOST
Can you imagine that? I can't even fathom it.
Ray GuarendiHOST
I can't even fathom it.
FitzHOST
Imagine if we were talking there about, um, for example, the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan," which is a brilliant piece of cinema.
FitzHOST
And there are men injured on, on Utah Beach, and the medics attend to them.
FitzHOST
They attend to their wounds.
FitzHOST
They attend to the wounds of the, of the stricken men.
John LongHOST
And probably like some engineers, we don't necessarily have that captured in the database.
Kevin HymelGUEST
And are the numbers, and I won't ask for specifics, are the numbers between Omaha Beach and Utah Beach kind of even?
John LongHOST
Well, that's interesting.
John LongHOST
We had that discussion with Joe Balkoski when he was on here.
Kevin HymelGUEST
soldiers,
John LongHOST
yeah.
John LongHOST
And closer to Utah Beach.
John LongHOST
Add them to the 4th Division as well as the engineers and the tankers.
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