{"id":27494,"date":"2022-06-06T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=27494"},"modified":"2022-06-06T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:16:12","slug":"keener-today-june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=27494","title":{"rendered":"Keener Today – June 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

D-Day:<\/strong> “On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, \u201cwe will accept nothing less than full victory.\u201d More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day\u2019s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded, but their sacrifice allowed more than 100,000 Soldiers to begin the slow, hard slog across Europe, to defeat Adolf Hitler\u2019s crack troops.” (US Army<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Possibly one of the most powerful early reports on that fateful day came from CBS’s Richard C. Hottelet<\/strong>, who flew with a Marauder squadron over Normandy at the exact moment of “H-Hour,” when the landings began. The power of his writing and the directness of his delivery helped set the standard for news reporting in the days before personality and opinion overtook the airwaves. Here are seven minutes of compelling radio heard as the first journalists returned from the battlefield to report to the world.<\/p>\n