The D-Day Episode

Hunter, Artstar and Gruff join Joe again to continue coverage of June 1944, and this episode we jump into D-Day, and Operation Overlord. Events covered:

• The battle for Pointe du Hoc
• the Battle of Merville Gun Battery 
• the capture of the Caen canal and Orne river bridges. T
• Operation Houndsworth and Operation Mallard.

• Stanley Hollis 
•  The Magnificent Eleven D-Day photographs.
• President Roosevelt's prayer address.

Birthdays covered inlcude:

• Edgar Froese, artist and electronic musician,
• Bud Harrelson,
•  Phillip Allen Sharp, geneticist and molecular biologist, in Falmouth, Kentucky; 
• Tommie Smith, track & field athlete and AFL wide receiver