War Report: A Record of Dispatches Broadcast by the BBC's War Correspondents with the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6 June 1944-5 May 1945Desmond Hawkins, Donald Boyd |
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ahead airborne aircraft ALAN MELVILLE Allied American ammunition anti-tank Arnhem artillery assault attack battle beaches began Berlin bombers bombs Bremen bridge British British Second Army broadcast Caen camp Canadian captured Cherbourg CHESTER WILMOT civilians coast column commander convoy correspondents counter-attack cross D Day defences enemy engineers field Field-Marshal Field-Marshal Montgomery fighting fire flags flak forward France FRANK GILLARD French front German tanks glider going guns Hitler HOWARD MARSHALL infantry jeep June landing looked machine-gun Maquis MATTHEW HALTON miles morning mortars move Nazi night Normandy officer Panzer paratroops pilot prisoners radio Report Rhine RICHARD DIMBLEBY river road ROBERT BARR round Russian Second Army shells ship shot side smoke snipers soldiers standing STEWART MACPHERSON streets surrender target there's thing to-day told town troops trucks U.S. First Army vehicles village watched wood WYNFORD VAUGHAN THOMAS yards