Normandy Bombing
during WWII
Background: A friend sent me this file; here's the information he sent with it:
"While
going through some old "Home Recordings" I obtained at a local auction,
I played most without reading the labels as they mostly were like "Aunt
Maude on the piano" etc. However this one record had weird sounds I
thought at first was a thunderstorm. I stopped the record and got out
better light and read the faint penciled title. I nearly fainted. What
I was listening to was a LIVE recording of the BOMBS during the
invasion of Normandy. The title was "Normandy Bombs August 8 1944". I
played it again and this time it gave me goose bumps knowing I was
hearing actual history few have ever heard.
The Recordio disk was in bad shape and the other side nearly unplayable
as it had been wet and stuck to its sleeve wrapper. These disks were
the first popular media of home recording before wire and tape
recorders and now digital CDs. Someone in the military must have had
one over there and captured this. The flip side is titled
"With Canadian Troups in Normandy August 8 1944...
I made a rough copy of side one with many scratches, pops, and sounds
from the bad disk itself. IF you can ignore the sounds occurring at 78
rpm, the bombs can be heard as well as some voice that is hard to make
out. The first voice I hear is about "...hundreds of rounds..." I have
converted it to MP3 below:
Normandy WWII Bombing
20140606