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Episode Synopsis "SMALL WORLD STORY WWII DDAY JUN 6 1944"
Father writes letter to his son June 7, 1944 who is on a Coast Guard Ship in the South Pacific. The letter explains that the sons friend is standing right next to the Corespondent who is making the broadcast from the flagship that he is listening to. Dear Son, An NBC reporter was broadcasting from the U.S.S. Augusta, the flagship of the invasion fleet, describing the goings on immediately prior to the opening of the shelling of the beaches by the "heavies" and giving a blow by blow description of the first salvos from the Augusta. You could actually hear the sharp boom of the Augusta's guns and the commentator described the action of the two battleships one off the port quarter and one off the starboard who had been firing their big guns for several minutes before the Augusta came in range. As you know, Max Farrell is the Communications Officer on this ship and in all probability was standing right along side when the correspondent was broadcasting. This certainly brought the whole situation right home to roost. Well, the chips are down and we will now have to hang onto our hats until we see just what transpires. Everything seems ok up to and through the second day, but it will be a week before we really know much about the success of our operations. Of course we are all tremendously excited and I am afraid I didn't get much work done yesterday. I had the radio on almost continuously and there was just one stream of reports coming in from various sources; some eye-witness accounts of correspondents who flew over the first wave of parachute troops, and also some first hand accounts of the navel action as seen from the motor torpedo boats that went over to cover the tremendous fleet of mine sweepers. It is very difficult for me to really comprehend the enormous magnitude of this operation or to put together any coherent story from the welter of reports that have been coming in. The main thing is that the high command seems satisfied with the operations up to the present time in spite of the fact that the weather let them down. It has apparently been pretty rough going in the channel and the northwest wind which has prevailed piled up considerable surf on the beaches. We have yet to find out just what effect this has had on the were overcome. Now the big chore is to get the heavy stuff ashore in time to meet the counter thrust that will certainly come within the next to or three days. More in a day or two ...
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