The Road to D-Day, Bernard Morgan's Story

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Radio Walks & Sound Stories

Jonathan Kempster - oral history

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Oral History and Audio Storytelling - the pictures are better on radio. "Plenty of time, plenty of tape, and few questions", (pioneering oral historian George Ewart Evans, 1909-1988, https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/George-Ewart-Evans-collection). Listen to Radio Walks on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/jonathan_kempster https://walklistencreate.org/sound-walk-september/sound-walk-september-awards/

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The Road to D-Day, Bernard Morgan's Story

Radio Walks & Sound Stories

14 minutes 29 seconds

1 year ago

The Road to D-Day, Bernard Morgan's Story

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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