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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11th Armoured Division Aachen advance ahead airborne aircraft Allied American Armoured Division Arnhem artillery assault attack bank Bastogne battle beaches began Belgian bombers bombs Bremen bridge bridgehead British British Second Army broadcast Brussels Caen camp Canadian captured CHESTER WILMOT civilians columns commander convoys correspondent crossing D Day defences enemy engineers Field-Marshal Field-Marshal Montgomery fighters fighting fire flags forces forward FRANK GILLARD French front German tanks glider going guns Hitler infantry jeep land liberated looked machine-gun MATTHEW HALTON miles morning mortars move Nazi night Normandy officer Panzer paratroops pilots port prisoners radio Report Rhine RICHARD DIMBLEBY river road ROBERT BARR round Russian Second Army September 1944 shells shot side smoke snipers soldiers standing STEWART MACPHERSON streets supplies surrender there's thing to-day told town troops trucks U.S. First Army vehicles village watched WYNFORD VAUGHAN THOMAS yards