Episode 19: World War 2 (Part 3) The Tide Turns

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Strom Thurmond landed on a glider behind enemy lines at D-Day and then went with the 82nd Airborne Division and then the First Army Division all the way to nearly Berlin. Listen as he talks about that campaign from D-Day through Belgium and the Battle of the Bulge and across the Rhine River as we also mix in Newsreel coverage from the time. It is the closing days of 1944 and the Allies are on the march through out Europe. 

Then listen as Franklin Roosevelt addresses the nation about the Allied intentions as it closes in on Germany, then again as he is Inaugurated for an unprecedented fourth term and finally as he addresses Congress after his return from the big three Yalta Conference in a speech that he begins with the only acknowledgement in his entire career of his handicap in public.  

Finally, we close the episode with a look back at the life and career of the extraordinary man who led America through a Great Depression and a World War. 

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