14 min
The Road to D-Day, Bernard Morgan's Story Radio Walks & Sound Stories
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- Documentary
Bernard Morgan was the youngest RAF sergeant to land on Gold
Beach during D-Day, 6th June 1944. He enlisted on his 18th birthday in 1942. In
this interview with Jonathan Kempster of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive,
Bernard explains how and why he ended up under fire on a Normandy beach,
serving as a code and cypher operator. His unit fought on through Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Germany, before hearing the news of Germany’s surrender in May
1945.
Meet eyewitnesses to conflict, at the Imperial War Museum, www.iwm.org.uk/events/we-were-there
Search 33,000 recordings related to conflict in the IWM Sound Collection, www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound
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Bernard Morgan was the youngest RAF sergeant to land on Gold
Beach during D-Day, 6th June 1944. He enlisted on his 18th birthday in 1942. In
this interview with Jonathan Kempster of the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive,
Bernard explains how and why he ended up under fire on a Normandy beach,
serving as a code and cypher operator. His unit fought on through Belgium, the
Netherlands, and Germany, before hearing the news of Germany’s surrender in May
1945.
Meet eyewitnesses to conflict, at the Imperial War Museum, www.iwm.org.uk/events/we-were-there
Search 33,000 recordings related to conflict in the IWM Sound Collection, www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound
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14 min