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we have heard from the veterans, but we would like your reaction. go to facebook.com/the "kel >> on june 6, 1944, gallant men from another generation embarked on the blargest land invasion ever attempted by war. coming from the national d-day memorial in virginia. this site chosen to honor all of the allies that died during the bedford boys 19 young soldiers from the one small town who lost their lives that day. the decision to invade europe had been in the planning stages for months. the russians had the treaty on the eastern front so the timing was right for the allies to strike hitler on the shores of
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ak fied orb o -- occupied franc. >> sail dorrs aors and airmen y about to embark on the great crusade. >> d-day will always stand in history as a defining moment of the second world war. >> retired colonel is a military historian. >> he believed if the allies were able to get a successful foot hold on the beaches that there would be no stopping the the allied plains. in hindsight it appears he was correct. >> the best way to get there is through fwrans. >> atkinson is the author of the become "the gun at last light." >> they had 3,000 miles to go from norway to the spanish border of france. >> they noticed operation over lord would land thousands of troops on the beaches of normandy. the code napes from british and
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sword utah and ohm maha were th american beaches. >> it was supposed to be in may of 1944 but it was delayed until june 5th and bad weather caused it to be delayed again. >> southern england and eastern england would have resembled almost a vast stock yard and industrial parking lot filled with every imaginable weapon. >> all along the coast there were a couple dozen encampments where the americans were staging. >> on display at the world war ii museum in new orleans is the higgins boat in the city where the boats were built this was the landing skracraft that carr our beaches through normandy. >> it was made of hard wood and the principle metal piece on the whole boat. >> the average american gi was 5 foot 9 weighed 144 pounds. the depression was hard on the health of the american people. we have just over a million still alive. >> landed in this cemetery on
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the morning of june 6th, 1944. here are your orders. you will take the bridge before daylight. >> early morning of june 6th the fist in the fight were paratroopers like tom blake key. >> you will hold the privilege regardless of how long it takes and how many casualties. >> they were bouncing all around us and bullets were hitting the landing craft. they said keep your head down. >> we did. >> the area of bombardment was a total failure. there was no place to hide once they landed. >> the preinvasion bombing was
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supposed to make large craters on the beach to act as shelters. >> if there was no craters there you put everybody back on and reset. we can't. >> he teaches military history at the u.s. military academy in west point. >> they have to execute with what they find. >> there are few professors of survived the first waive. >> robert cam po i believe was a photographer for life magazine at the time. most of his film got wet and didn't make it out very well. >> curator of arms at west bank museum. >> there's a little bit of movie film but you see basically the same shot over and over again. 39 machine guns right around the worst of the beaches. you have no place to hide. >> the reason why they wanted to land at low tide was to minimize the effectiveness of the defenses the germans had put on the beaches. there were 3,000 obstacles on omaha beach alone. >> guys were dying all over the
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place. you think you are running fast but you are carrying about 80 pounds of equipment. >> one of the worst episodes of d-day happened on omaha beach from an infantry unit from bedford, virginia. >> they went in on the first wave and what they faced was just a daunting task. >> president of the national da memorial foundation. >> 19 of them would lose their lives. >> it took until mid july before the last telegram came through. >> their story is part of the motion picture saving private ryan. >> the first 22 minutes of the de fiction of omaha beach is unlike anything ever captured before. omaha beach is the toughest landing the allies faced came close to failing. >> it was a challenge for our tanks. after 70 years the encrusted steel frames are under water at
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normandy. >> most went in with the hatches open. usually at least three of the five men in the tank are able to get out. >> combishdirector of >> it would work fine on river crossing or lake but in rough seas it was inadequate. >> omaha is forever remembered as bloody omaha where the allies experienced the highest number of casualties. >> looked up over the sea wall it was a roll of wire about 10 feet high rolled and it ran all of the way down the beach. then the hill was on fire smokin smoking from the shells. they yelled toe guys put on your gas mask so you could breathe. >> first thing you noticed was the terrible, terrible noise. when artillery is coming in and hitting within 50 yards of you, you are hearing really loud
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bangs. >> john rain a retired major general was a captain with the 5th ranger infantry battalion that landed on omaha beach. >> smoke all over the bluffs as we came in. plus there was smoke from the boats that had been hit by artillery. >> the maximum range of any of the guns in the omaha area or the french 155 millimeter gps. they had a range of about 10 miles. they could be pretty far in and still reach the beach. >> four hours after the invasion began at 6:30 in the morning on june 6th #th there were american soldiers on top of those bluffs at omaha beach. >> but hitler was convinced this was not the real invasion. a top secret ally plan known as operation fortitude tricked him into a ghost army. >> they recognized after the invasion took place that george patton was not there in normandy and assumed that he was
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preparing, staging for yet another large invasion. >> the effect is the germans freeze in play they did it publically to the beach. >> coming up did a birthday celebration cost hitler the battle on d-day? ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ what's seattle's favorite noise? the puget sound! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly ♪ all right, never mind doesn't matter. this is a classic. what does an alien seamstress sew with? a space needle! ♪ foghorn sounds loudly continuously ♪ oh come off it captain! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. my treadmill started to dress i mibetter than i did.uts, the problem was the pain. hard to believe, but dr. scholl's active series insoles reduce shock by 40% and give you immediate pain relief from three sports injuries. amazing! now, i'm a believer.
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>> as hitler was leaving he was back in germany trying to get an audience with hitler. he wanted to play much closer to the front where they could strike the allies to blow at their most vulnerable time when they were unloading at the beach. >> there's a personal issue as well. >> marshall erwin rale mole had news from paris. >> but that morning there was a bigger surprise to sgermany. they convinced hitler to deny repeated requests by nazi generals to reposition their troops. he was sure it would be led by patton. it wouldn't be until two months later that hitler would realize the june 6th d-day was the real invasion.
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>> we could look at his career as an amazing story. the economy was a mess. above all hitler blamed all of the german problems on a relatively small minority of jews who lived inside the country. it was what hitler was telling and a lot of people were buying. hit her took his most charismatic general had a lot of experience fighting allies in north africa and put him in charge of building the atlantic wall. he through himself into the task. >> german news reals show him infecting massive guns and invulnerable concrete replacements reassuring the german audiences allies would be stopped. >> it wasn't just normandy it was the entire french coast
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depending on how you imaged it. we believed be talking about 1500 miles if we include belgium. >> on the beaches thousands of wooden barriers were tucked with explosives and hidden beneath the high tiede. >> if you landed high tide you landed that much closer to the beach. this is why so many of the obstacles were designed to be effective while submerged and landing craft would hit them. >> when they discovered these i see had plan to come at high tied was scrapped. at low tied they had 800 yards of flat beach to cross with few places to take cover. >> if you were a german gunner inside one of the con treat boxes when you looked through the america and saw the landing craft coming at you you were ready to fight. >> it was a daunting task to
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land on the beach. it was well defend. but most people don't realize the number of german sell dorrs on the beach itself was relatively small. that's why we were able to overwhelm. >> did sdjtd think have a sizable defense? a concerted effort of allies to destroy any aircraft in the region. >> they were taken back to prison camps in england. the gi's who saw them were struck by how scrawny they seemed compared to the image tive super men that we anticipated finding. many were not german. >> some of these pow's didn't even speak german. >> it was eventually discovered they were speaking some dialect. they had been soviet soldiers captured in the fight against
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germany. >> germany is going to surrender. said all right men. cover me. i didn't know exactly what that meant but that is what john wayne had been using. i figured it had to be good. >> he was not at normandy but was in sicily italy and french rivera. >> i looked him in the eye and thought did you ever think you could be taken prisoner by a jew? i turned around and said to my men. take him away. i was typical. i was not extraordinary. but we had so many millions of us who are not only ready give up their lives like i was, too, but recognizing this was a distinct possibility. >> we would get there when we did. they would come in we didn't think in the bad weather. but we did.
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>> as we look back on d daying it was a plan to deceive hitler known as operation fortitude. it's goal to double cross the germans by using their own spies. >> we wanted to dissipate the forces around europe. an entire fake army was created on the coast of scotland. they created the problem with the rubber tanks but it was high winds. they would lift off the ground and begin to float away. >> ghost armies with tanks were
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part of a scheme by british intelligence to deceive hitler. >> 50 days had failed the war would certainly have gone on far longer. >> mcentire accounts in the book double crossed to help secure the allied victory. >> the efforts were extraordinary. they were backed up but you couldn't present hitler with a document that said we are going to invade. that would be too obvious. when the general assembled the jigsaw would create the picture that was completely false. >> it sounds more like a james bond movie but it was oo 7 who created one of the biggest spy schemes of world war ii. mcintyre was able to obtain
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access to operation minutes meat and fleming'sing imaginative plans. >> they tried to convince the ger plans that sicily was not going to be invaded although it was the obvious targets. >> they went to the morgue and found the british soldier had died. had a suitcase full of documents that indicated the british and americans were going to land there. >> he was u.s. intelligence and curator of the international spy museum. >> put them in a torpedo tube used compressed air and put him out. >> operation fortitude. >> we create the false radio transmissions so german intelligence understands or thinks they understand there is a lahring group still waiting for it publically or norway.
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>> we wanted them to believe we had more troops than we had. we wanted them to believe it would come later than it would. it forces germans to second-guess themselves and slows their decision making process. >> british intelligence from the beloved general bernard montgomery. >> he would leave the ground before the attack. >> they spent james de brau-- g brault tar two-days before d-day. >> there's nothing happening for the time being they can relax. this is not a story of guns, bombs, bullets. >> mcintyre describes the british game he played turning spies and double agents against hitler. >> the best thing to do is have double agents and deploy them as
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war. >> agents who were in england every one was caught by the flip. >> they could in his own phrase get inside hitler's head.he rev troops. these fooi essential double agents were probably the largest military unit ever assembled. a bisexual sales girl a business conservative. they were code naped brutus, treasure, tricycle and gar go. they were all sending information to make it look as if they were invasions when no invasions were takes place. >> were e-mail spies used a pen. >> it was the most advanced technology to pass information back and forth. >> he spent hundreds of secret letters written with invisible
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ink and more than 1200 wireless messages all of them false. >> they have great credibility with the germans and he convinced them in his messages by letter, later by radio. >> peter earnest is director of the international spy museum and is a former cia agent. >> he convinced him he had an entire network of people. >> the germans trusted garbo even though the network was imaginary and awarded him the iron cross. >> the cross agents all we know the in different directions after the war. some publiced what they had done in defiance of the attacks. later in life this group would like to maintain he had been the model for james bond that indeed some of his extraordinary bravery and courage under fire is reminiscent of james bond. some never told anybody what
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he is the first american winner since 2006 and was the closest finish. he wound up finishing third. i am kelly wright now back to fox news. >> during world war ii the predecessor to the cia was known as the oss. espionage activities behind enemy lines. just like today's spies the oss had clever gadgets and secret weapons to deceive and kill our enemy in unusual ways. >> as an officer my job was basically to plantar gets. we would intercept german radio conversations that were not in
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code. >> if a war had come on for years you would have had more in wars. it means less people are dying. >> they played a key role in out foxes the enemy to save lives. >> he is a hissian at west point. >> they are getting reports of they are dummies. i just saw something blow up. they can't just be a dummy. >> he and his british brother in arms rupert helped save man fee of our soldiers on d-day.
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during the normandy operations there was a loring drop of about 500 of those potentially cloth dummies without any features to create a lot of confusion and create the impression there was a parachute drop in an area there wasn't going to be one. they were rigged up with explosives and moynoise makers. the rubber ones are called oscar. >> the intent behind an operation is to present the enemy commander with more information than he can effective by dly digest. it is hard to make the right decision as to what to react to first. >> once the real paratroopers landed on the battlefield other concealed badge e gadgets helpe them find their way. >> i had a silk stcarf. if you got behind enemy lines and didn't know the road, you could always look to escape map.
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>> gadgets like these pencils did more than write. >> the explosives themselves are becoming more and more advanced during the second world war. once you are able to create more modern explosives you can shape them into anything you want to like a pencil or a shoe or umbrella or other things like that that could kill many, many people. >> like this seemingly harmless piece of coal used by the french resistance. >> it is an explosive shaped to look like a piece of coal. no one is going to think anything compared to a coal on the ground. you could disrupt trill production by blowing up a factory. >> use concealed weapons like a pistol hidden in a man's pipe or even a glove. >> if you want to be lethal as a covert operative you can't walk around with a tommy gun on the streets of paris. >> there were the spy tools you couldn't see at all.
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>> many cases low tech was the only thing available. your mom . it's hot here in france in june. right between the lines in secret code in one letter it was passed they would use whatever chemical was necessary to reveal the message. >> people are if as matfascinat gadgetry. that's why it plays such a role in james bond. i am most impressed with what's up here. that is what enables to break the inanything roy code. >> it was adopted by the germans to incode and de code messages so it would take millions of years to break the code. they had a coded cipher school where they brought many of the pop mathematicians. the ultra intelligence that came from enmigma allowed us to brin our convoys around the british
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submarine. >> we broke the japanese code. >> the purple machine was magic intelligence that was our code name for it. when eisenhower was planning d-day i had pretty comfortable knowledge of what the german defensives are going to look like where the defenses were going to be. we knew our deception plan was working well. >> the covert force hientd our spy operation was the oss the original cia. >> the office of services was founded by wild bill donovan one of the most decorated soldiers in american history. they trained in saab toch and found out about german atomic energy programs. they found buout about japanese troops and german industrial capabilities. all of this sports the war effort. the more you can tlaft the war the more lives you are saving. >> spying on your enemy with a bird's-eye view.
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>> spying from the sky has been routine with satellites and drones but area reconnaissance was brand new back then. how surveillance photo taken prior to d-day helped save lives before our boys even hit the beaches. >> it did require huge detailed
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analysis of the enemy defenses and the terrain and the beaches lined. >> he was the curator for the ariel photographs and 3-d equipment. >> it started from the early days of the war when it realized photograph interpretation had an important role. we learned a great deal from the germans and the french in the first world war. >> they attached a camera to a homing pigeon. >> it looks like a tourist lost in pir ryes. the camera around the pigeon's neck had an automatic suit shutter release. as the pigeon flu it would be taking pictures. >> aerial recon saenz technology progressed to the point where we knew what we had waiting for our boys in normandy. >> there are pictures of the troops ducking as they flew over
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to attack a beach landing. they succeeded ariel photography was a guaranteed source of init el against. >> it required a special aircraft. >> it had blue camouflage which was the paint used to make it almost invisible at 30,000 feet in the sky. >> 300 layers of camouflage paint. it was the fast errs aircraft in the world in those days. >> the germans would have wondered why we were flying the normandy beaches and only the normandy beaches so they flew from spain to germany and built their defenses along the coast. these were huge gun pbatteries trenches and gun post. we needed to know where they were. >> we had maps and aerial photographs of the entire area.
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we were briefed on it thoroughly. we knew where every blade of grass was. we studied it so hard and so long. >> it had alderman defenses on the atlantic war. the secret of getting intelligence was photography was taken in 3-d or stereo as we call it. a single camera that fit in an aircraft and the camera cycled quickly enough 60 percent over that to each professor ta photograph taken. it was very simple. that gave you a perfectly formed 3 dimensional image. no clever tricks no clever cameras just 610 percent overlap between the photographs. it gave you that height and it had undulations it has naturally. that would give you a perfect 3
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dimensional image which consider is the intelligence you gain from 3-d photography. >> it helps you recognize what it is and analyzes it what is it what does it mean, important operation. women were particularly talented with detailed analysis and great patience if you like looking at the mine unusual shaw analyzing it and deciding what it all meant. >> world war ii by necessity really chipped at way at workplace inequality in britain. they started taking jobs traditionally done by men. they were employed on an equal basis and majde a huge mark in photographing interpretation for many good reasons. >> many of the pem were commissioned and that's when they got interpreters. many of the key players, in the aircraft extension studying air graft development r5 million
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frames of imagery were produced preparing for d-day. many were grif entgiven the uni to show the area they were going to land on. it gives many many more people died than did i suspect. >> the americans having soldiers take ariel reconnaissance photographs on other targets on the way to berlin. gerald weinstein had his father's collection since world war ii. >> he is a fine artist. my dad went to the air force photographing school near denver colorado. the group he was assigned to flew in b 24's. they used a bk 20 it could take 200 photographs on a 4 by 5 roll of film. when the germans had targets they had a smoke screen by smoke generators. the targets were the aircraft
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factories. >> not every location see more weinstein photographed from the air got bombed by the u.s. air force particularly sites that contained precious art and architecture like the city of venice. >> one of the photographs is of you in a b 24 over venice. i am sure it was a restricted area. he once said he thought photography wasn't an art. i guess he believed that. he thought photography was a medium for recording history. >> he never imaged he would be part of it. >> my father in a group of officers were in a field in france and one of them stepped on a land mine. they were not marked off. with the aid of a french civilian a young teenaged girl my father went into the minefield and rescued the rest of his group who were in there and pulled them to safety and as a result received the soldier's medal which is the highest award the army gave for nonpcombatant
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purposes. >> still to come the untold stories.
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>> they scaled the land to threaten otten ohm hey beaches. the guns were missing and later destroyed. gregg palkot went to normandy to investigate the story of another german battery on june 9th and remained fore gotten until a map was discovered. >> these are the men who took the cliffs. >> the scaling of the cliffs and the rangers that conducted an
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amazing feat, the mane purpose was to neutralize the large anti ship guns that were on the cliffs. >> when you got up nothing is in them. >> the army ranger trained to climb the steep cliffs. but when rough seas forced his land to land on omaha reach he ran there but the big guns were not there. >> they were german. >> the missing guns were soon located and destroyed. germanal tillery fire was still coming from the wall. >> the question is they knock those guns out where was all of that artillery coming from? not the point. >> so these guns are in utah or omaha? >> gary stern purchased french land where he believes the ar trill ry fire was coming from a few miles from pontahawk. his book the coverup at omaha beach chronicles how the map he
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found led him to this remarkable discovery. >> it came from veteran's possession. i noticed certain areas were marked by high resistance on the mark. >> it had a detailed area of the space in between there aged home ma beach. it was marked with a pencil or pen. >> there was nothing here apart from this>> there was concrete sticking up from the ground. >> thighs guns were active. after d-day. >> they were still there. >> 70 years later a new mystery about a little known battle has emerged a few miles near the small peaceful village of maisie. >> i managed to obtain photographs detailed prebombing
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post bombing. the bomb plot shows that. there were a number of them and probably none of them hit. >> i have seen orders that did mention maze zee. it had a high pryority on the registration apps. it was well-known. >> i was buying every single book i could on the subject. it was not mentioned on the index. it was not mentioned by anybody. >> 70 years later historians have little knowledge of the battery's existence or why it was buried under 6 feet of soil. >> i could see how it would be reclaimed the bombers put it up to use. i don't want to envine every
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german fortification. >> what are we looking at here? oo three meter thick roof completely bomb proof set away from the sea so they couldn't be shelled into. >> how did it take so long to remember that it was here. >> it was constructed because it was felt by russians this was the concrete and thick con treat. >> the maisie battery is consistent with other batteries you find all along the atlantic wall as a network of reinforced concrete bumpers, artillery positions, headquartered positions. >> the rangers got orders to attack maisie on june 9th. >> after it was secured we were told that we were going to attack a battery and have to
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knock it out. >> it was well defended. the infantry they had out numbered us probably 2-1. a fight was much more severe than the battle and landings on omaha beach. the germans from in very good positions. >> i have since found out that the air core knew about it. the british knew about it. everybody knew about it. except us. >> the battery is clear from the study and orders that i have gone over with reports of operations. the maisy battery is clearly in a number of objectives. >> while excavating the site they found something more unexpensive. >> we found a skeleton he died in battle.
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>> it was from pee significance to position. >> this is what it looked like with the german soldier. a ma zein gun lasting away at army rangers it took five and a half hours to take the whole complex 18 americans killed or injured in the process. >> tpz it was a tough nut to crack. >> if it had been counted earlier unquestionably it will be telling you. >> mk aisy was not mentioned as part of the official history of d-day is because of the intelligence ir or made by the allies. >> it wasn't the target that it was supposed to be. maisy did turn out to be the target that they should have attacked, clearly. was somebody embarrass ed by
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that? >> it was attacked and captured a small ranger battalion that didn't have a public information officer or anything like that. there was no one to count what we accomplished. the american forces put bulldozers in there and filed those things under as much dirt as they could if the counter attack actually got into that area. they did erg they could to destroy and cover them up. >> there are so many things there is only one shining example so others could be free. by the end of the war america lost more than 405,000 lives during germany and japan.
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