D-Day & Liberation of Europe

Internet:

• The Crusade for Europe Begins - Europe 1944
• National D-Day Memorial at Bedford, VA
• D-Day Museum in New Orleans 1 2
• D-Day Museum in Portsmouth, England
• Normandy 1944 from Encyclopedia Britannica
• In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 from from Canada
• Juno Beach Centre: Canada in WW II from Canada
• National Film Board of Canada: D-Day
• The Battle for Normandy from France
• The Battle of Normandy from Philippe Corve
• D-Day+ 1944 from BBC People's War

Films:

• Feature films include Patton and Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day
• TV series include Band of Brothers from HBO, D-Day from PBS American Experience
• TV newscasts of June 6, 1994 include CNN World Today showing veterans of the 101st reenacting the parachute landings, ABC Nightline with Ted Koppel reporting "D-Day Revisited" as it would have been reported in 1944 by modern TV, NBC Today Show at Pointe du Hoc and the Omaha Beach Cemetery and Garden of the Missing
• Documentary films include D-Day by Charles Guggenheim shown at the D-Day Museum in New Orleans

Newsreels:

• D-Day Preparation
• "Preview To Invasion," Universal 17-277 newsreel, 3/16/44 on DVD53
• "The Arsenal For D-Day," Universal 17-292 newsreel, 5/8/44 on DVD53
• "Cameramen Ready For Invasion," Universal 17-297 newsreel, 5/25/44 on DVD53
• "Invaders From The Sky-airborne troops," Universal 17-297 newsreel, 5/25/44 (2) on DVD53
• "Eve of Battle," - Reel 1 [11 min.] and Reel 2 [9 min.] Universal 17-300 newsreel, 6/6/44 on DVD53
• Invasion of France
• "First Pictures Invasion of France," Universal 17-302 newsreel, 6/12/44 on DVD53
• "The Battle of France," Universal 17-306 newsreel, 6/26/44 on DVD53
• "German Rocket Bomb" V-1, Universal 17-307 newsreel, 6/29/44 on DVD53
• "Cherbourg, Gateway to Victory," Universal 17-309 newsreel, 7/2/44 on DVD54
• "Robot Bombs Fail To Panic British," Universal 17-311 newsreel, 7/14/44 (5) on DVD54
• "Success In Normandy," Universal 17-311 newsreel, 7/14/44 (2) on DVD54
• "Liberation Of France Forges On," Universal 17-312 newsreel, 7/18/44 on DVD54
• Invasion of Germany
• "Battle Rages Along Nazi Wall," Universal 17-333 newsreel, 9/28/44 on DVD54
• "3rd Army blasts Nazi Strongholds," Universal 17-343 newsreel, 11/2/44 on DVD54
• "Winter Push To Knock Out German Reich," Universal 17-355 newsreel, 12/14/44 on DVD54
• "Allies Fight Fierce Nazi Counter-Blow," Universal 17-357 newsreel, 12/20/44 on DVD54
• "Germans Halted," Universal 18-360 newsreel, 12/29/44 (4) on DVD54
• "German Drive Rolled Back By Allies," Universal 18-363 newsreel, 1/11/45 on DVD55
• "Allies Close on Rhineland," Universal 18-368 newsreel, 1/29/45 (3) on DVD55
• "Allies Step Up Attack On West Front," Universal 18-369 newsreel, 2/1/45 (2) on DVD55
• "Allies Open Final Drive In Germany" - The Roer Offensive, Universal 18-381 newsreel, 3/15/45 on DVD55

Radio

• Complete Broadcast D-Day, June 6, 1944, from OTR WWII Collection
• Opening Fifth War Loan Drive, June 12, 1944, Fireside Chat #30 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• We Interrupt This Program and Now Hear This from Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Homeby the Miller Nichols Library and Marr Sound Archives at UMKC

Online Books:

• Cross-Channel Attack - Army "Green Book" from CMH
• Normandy 6 June-24 July 1944 from CMH
• Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944) from CMH
• Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6-27 June 1944) with maps, from CMH
• St-Lo (7 July - 19 July 1944) from CMH

Maps:

• Maps 1944
• Beaches June 6, from Time magazine

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