Man Discovers Original D-Day Dispatch Audiotape in Basement

Old Man · 4 Oct 2019 at 10:16

Amazing! A very important piece of history.

Article -
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-d-day-dispatch-audiotape-basement-180973276/

Original Recordgraph Amertapes FROM D-DAY, June 6th, 1944 -
https://www.d-dayrecordgraph.com/

The quality of the recordings are very good.

RxR · 4 Oct 2019 at 11:13

There's no obvious link to audio files. Where did you see it?

RxR · 4 Oct 2019 at 11:14

e: deleted a double post of that above due to dodgy wifi connection at my end.

rebel rebel · 4 Oct 2019 at 11:57

Wow what a find! Amazing to think these were sitting in someone's basement.

I could only get them to play from number 2, by switching to desktop mode on my mobiles browser.

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:26

Listening to these now :eek:

What a piece of history, amazing listening.

MookJong · 4 Oct 2019 at 12:42

Excellent!

Old Man · 4 Oct 2019 at 13:42

RxR said:
There's no obvious link to audio files. Where did you see it?

The 2nd link leads you to the "audio files" and other items (click on which ones you are interested in), so click on it and follow the instructions.

Old Man · 4 Oct 2019 at 14:36

rebel rebel said:
Wow what a find! Amazing to think these were sitting in someone's basement.

I could only get them to play from number 2, by switching to desktop mode on my mobiles browser.

Me too, so perhaps it will be fixed soon; I have just reported the problem, so just waiting on a response now.

Fireskull · 4 Oct 2019 at 14:57

Amazing, listening to no.5 is something else, warning for headphone users at about the 2 min mark....

snips86x · 4 Oct 2019 at 14:58

Fireskull said:
Amazing, listening to no.5 is something else, warning for headphone users at about the 2 min mark....

Even with 1 earphone in, I got more than I expected lol

rebel rebel · 4 Oct 2019 at 16:05

Yeah 5 was quite unsettling. My Grandad landed at Gold beach.

RxR · 5 Oct 2019 at 01:02

It reminded me how I mighta not been born when my paternal grandfathers ship was sunk by U57

Old Man · 5 Oct 2019 at 03:24

I have had a reply back about the audio 1 file not working and that it has now been fixed.

iamtheoneneo · 5 Oct 2019 at 12:27

Never forgot....

Only took 50 years for the world to forget how we ended up here in 1944 , and all in the pursuit of money.

mmj_uk · 5 Oct 2019 at 20:31

As terrifying as it would have been for the brave men who liberated Europe from tyranny the invasion itself must have been a sight to behold. I will have to listen to these later.

This is one my favourite film clips:

To all of the remainers please excuse the far right Frenchman waving his national flag with pride and joy at the thought of his country becoming independent of a foreign power.

Old Man · 5 Oct 2019 at 22:48

My father took part in the D-Day landing and had spoken little about what transpired there, though years later he did say that the book Saving Private Ryan was something that I should read (which i did, though I will never fully understand what he went through without living it myself and it goes beyond anything you think a person can do and still retain a part of ones self after coming home). We must never forget all the lives that were lost, nor that it took the effort of several nations to end the war and not something one nation could have done on their own (Been told by a few people now that this or that nation would have been able to overcome the enemy on their own and did not appreciate a certain nation(s) from interfering).