D-Day & Omaha Beach

Lectures in History

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History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Professor Adrian Lewis talked about about Omaha Beach and the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, France, during World War II. He described the German and Allied military strategies as well as the command structure on each side. He also enumerated the challenges American troops faced when trying to land on Omaha Beach and argued that the outcome was not inevitable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week, the Lectures and History podcast recognizes the 80th anniversary of D-Day with
0:08.3	history professor Adrian Lewis of the University of Kansas.
0:12.3	Professor Lewis describes the historic Allied landings on Omaha Beach and Normandy, France,
0:17.0	and argues that the success of the operation was not inevitable.
0:20.4	He also describes the German and allied military strategies and command structures.
0:24.9	Professor Lewis is a retired army officer who has written and researched extensively on war, military affairs, and the United States Armed Forces.
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1:08.4	question number seven and eight questions number seven and eight on your syllabus, right?
1:12.6	Page 10. Describe and characterize the Normandy invasion. Why did the Allies succeed in this campaign?
1:19.6	Allies German defensive plan and allied offensive plans explain victory and defeat.
1:25.6	Why did the Normandy invade, why was the Normandy
1:27.5	invasion significant? Question number eight, why was the battle for Omaha Beach a flawed
1:35.3	victory? So you have the questions there, those are the questions that we want to deal with today.
1:40.3	How many have read Omaha Beach? Here we go. Let me try it one more time. How many have read it?
1:51.0	About half. About half. Okay. All right. Thesis.
1:58.0	Thesis. Someone helped me out. What's the thesis there? Thank you.
2:01.6	You're going to help me out here, right?
2:03.6	So the thesis basically is saying that the operation failed and then that the soldiers were the
2:15.6	ones that basically won the battle or succeeded with
2:19.4	the operation and too they organized themselves on the beach in the middle of the fire
2:26.2	to get the operation underway.
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