Author Rick Atkinson Discusses D-Day

Author Rick Atkinson Discusses D-Day



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05/26/2013 05/26/2013

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Video News Report NBCUniversal Media, LLC. 2013 00:02:25

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Author Rick Atkinson discusses some of the heroics of American soldiers during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II.

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Memorial Day, World War II, WWII, Veterans, Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, Author, Book, National World War II Museum, D-Day, Normandy, France, Invasion, 82nd Airborne Division, Mission, Battle, Warfare, Combat, Fighting, Attack, Violence, Atrocities, Germans, Nazis, Reprisal, Soldiers, Troops, Casualties, Casualty, Heroes, Hero, Descendants, Liberation, Europe, Interview

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MLA "Author Rick Atkinson Discusses D-Day." Tom Brokaw, correspondent. NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal Media. 26 May 2013. NBC Learn. Web. 11 January 2020

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APA Brokaw, T. (Reporter), & Holt, L. (Anchor). 2013, May 26. Author Rick Atkinson Discusses D-Day. [Television series episode]. NBC Nightly News. Retrieved from

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Author Rick Atkinson Discusses D-Day LESTER HOLT, anchor: The march of time on this Memorial Day weekend is a powerful reminder that we are losing many of the Americans who sacrificed so much during World War II, particularly, those who fought the brutal battle of Normandy. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson has written a new book called The Guns at Last Light, about the valiant men and women who fought in that decisive campaign for the liberation of Europe. And he sat down with NBC's Tom Brokaw at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. RICK ATKINSON (Author, The Guns At Last Light): It is one of the greatest stories in history of humanity and it is a story, ultimately, about humanity. The individuals are invariably men with feet of clay, which makes them more interesting. TOM BROKAW, reporting: Here at the World War II Museum I met a member of the 82nd Airborne, who said for four days I was holding a bridge and thought the invasion had failed. He said we thought we were all alone. ATKINSON: Things didn't go according to plan. They rarely do in airborne operations. In some cases it took them days, the better part of a week to either get captured or get killed or make their way back into some sort of cohesive unit. BROKAW: Very quickly just off the beach it becomes really primal warfare. ATKINSON: There's a lot of atrocity and Normandy is something we don't like to think about because we don't like to think of our soldiers committing atrocities, but the Germans were brutal right from the beginning and it created a cycle of reprisal and atrocity that really went on till 1945. BROKAW: And the French civilians in that sector in that part of France to a degree that no one fully appreciated for a long, long time took enormous casualties and terrible sufferings. ATKINSON: There were very few towns or villages in Normandy that escaped unscathed. And the fact that you can go to Normandy today and be received as an American as the descendant of those heroes, and that's how they look at them as heroes. BROKAW: The difference between World War II and modern wars from an American point of view is

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that it was all in during World War II everybody had a role. ATKINSON: Yeah. BROKAW: Now it's less than one percent of the population. ATKINSON: Yeah. It's incumbent as citizens. It's part of our duty to the republic to understand that even if we don't have a blood stake in the same way that so many did in World War II, they are flesh and blood. We should consider them to be our sons and daughters, our grandsons and granddaughters in the same ways if they literally were, and I think that that's something that we owe to those generations that came before.

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