Denro points out that when the Beatles first walked into the EMI recording studios at Abbey Road, it was the 18th anniversary of another noteworthy date — the Allied Invasion of Europe or, as it’s more commonly called, D-Day. He says…
If you listen to the start of the news reports, they actually say that it may be a hoax by the Germans, as there was no confirmation from Allied Forces. Talk about tight security. The largest Invasion in history – and no leaks. The only reports were from the various German news agencies. Now, there’d be pictures taken by the French on their cellphones, tweets from the front lines, troops updating their facebook pages as they advance, satellite views of the ships at sea and the beaches…
Here are a few edited radio broadcasts from OTR.com, with those qualified announcements that the invasion had begun.
[audio:http://www.otr.com/ra/news/dday_kallen.mp3,http://www.otr.com/ra/news/1st_bulletin_CBS.mp3,http://www.otr.com/ra/news/1st_bulletin_NBC.mp3|titles=WOR radio announcement of D-Day,CBS Radio network announcement of D-Day, NBC Radio network announcement of D-Day]A complete set of radio recordings from June 6, 1944 is at Archive.org.
