Speaker 1: This is a Jesse Kelly show.
Speaker 2: It is the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 1: Let's have some fun.
Speaker 2: On a Thursday and get ready.
Speaker 1: For a show tonight. Why because it's history time, baby.
Speaker 1: It is the eightieth anniversary of D Day. I am
Speaker 1: going to tell a history story tonight about it. A
Speaker 1: portion of it you may know, you may not know,
Speaker 1: but either way, I'm gonna do it. And it ain't
Speaker 1: gonna be five minutes. And I gotta let you know
Speaker 1: right now that I'm a liar. I told you last
Speaker 1: night I think it was, or the night before that.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be the start of the second hour.
Speaker 1: Forget that crap. We're starting right friggin now. We are
Speaker 1: going to tell a history story. And yes, I understand
Speaker 1: there's some news today. Joe Biden is out there. He's
Speaker 1: talking about Vladimir Putin. He's justifying his decision to launch
Speaker 1: missiles into Russia. It's really bad. I understand that's out there.
Speaker 1: I get that. I've heard.
Speaker 3: He said the supply of high precision weapons to Ukraine
Speaker 3: for strikes on Russian territory is direct participation.
Speaker 1: In this war.
Speaker 3: He went on to say that this is the way
Speaker 3: the serious problems and again talked about Russia's nuclear capabilities.
Speaker 3: Does that concern you?
Speaker 1: I've known them for over forty years. Yeah, we're in deep
Speaker 1: trouble and we're going to talk about that. I am
Speaker 1: also going to address Hillary Clinton's comments today about D Day.
Speaker 1: They were despicable, as you can imagine. After all, it's
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. In fact, I wonder, I wonder which has
Speaker 1: a bigger body count? What will set aside that for
Speaker 1: a moment? What, Chris? We're just asking questions. And yes,
Speaker 1: I heard Biden's comments about D Day today and all
Speaker 1: these other things, and I'm going to get to these things.
Speaker 1: Trump talking about retribution, would he do it? Would he
Speaker 1: not do it? Teachers emails? So that we are going
Speaker 1: to get to this stuff. But I've got to let
Speaker 1: you know right now it's gonna be a bit. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about D Day. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about heroes, history, fear, sacrifice, And we're doing that right
Speaker 1: friggin now. Why because I want to That's why. So
Speaker 1: buckle up now. I want you. I want you to
Speaker 1: imagine something. Three am. Alarm goes off, it's time to
Speaker 1: get up. You get up. Obviously it's dark out. You're nervous,
Speaker 1: You go down to the chow hall with all your friends,
Speaker 1: and you know you should eat, after all, it's going
Speaker 1: to be a long, long, long day ahead of you.
Speaker 1: But you understand that there's a decent chance you're going
Speaker 1: to die that day, and so are your friends, and
Speaker 1: so you tend to not be that hungry. You shovel
Speaker 1: as many eggs powdered eggs into your stomach as you can,
Speaker 1: and then you go get your gear, weapon, kid, everything
Speaker 1: you need. You and your buddies you go down to
Speaker 1: the shore. It's cold out, it's dark, rainy. You have
Speaker 1: these boats sitting there, and these are not pleasure boats.
Speaker 1: There are boats that are actually run by the English.
Speaker 1: They're landing craft for you and your friends. You're about
Speaker 1: to get on these boats. You're careful not to step
Speaker 1: in the water because the water is freezing cold too,
Speaker 1: and you're already shivering from nerves and the cold outside.
Speaker 1: You don't really want to get wet, but you and
Speaker 1: your friends you stack onto these boats. They're not big,
Speaker 1: and about twenty five of you are getting onto these boats.
Speaker 1: You get onto the boat, boats are all around you
Speaker 1: and you begin motoring across the English Channel in the waves.
Speaker 1: It is not calm. The weather has been dreadful. The
Speaker 1: weather was dreadful the day before. The weather is about
Speaker 1: to be dreadful again. The seas are rough. To put
Speaker 1: it mildly, Remember that water you wanted to keep off you.
Speaker 1: It's soaking you. The waves are pouring over the side.
Speaker 1: You are seasick, most of your friends are. And the
Speaker 1: waves are in the very least deluding the amount of
Speaker 1: vomit that's in the bottom of the boat. You and
Speaker 1: your friends, while you're not lighting cigarettes or trying to
Speaker 1: make jokes or praying to God, are having to use
Speaker 1: whatever you can find to bay water out of the
Speaker 1: boats just to keep them afloat. In fact, you just
Speaker 1: watch one of them, with some of your buddies in
Speaker 1: it capsize. It's upside down. You don't know if any
Speaker 1: of your friends are alive. But the timetable being what
Speaker 1: it is, means you have to keep going. And did
Speaker 1: I mention it's dark early in the morning and soon?
Speaker 1: I say soon? But takes you about an hour to
Speaker 1: cross this channel with the waves and the vomit and
Speaker 1: the nerves and the fear, And soon you can see
Speaker 1: out ahead of you like it's a scene from Lord
Speaker 1: of the Rings a long cliff. You know you're approaching
Speaker 1: the shore and the cliff is dark. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: so dark out that when you first see the cliff,
Speaker 1: the cliff looks black. Only as you get closer and
Speaker 1: closer and closer to the cliff, the cliffs start shooting
Speaker 1: at you, little flashes, tracers coming out at you. Your
Speaker 1: buddy beside you just got hitting the guts, doing the
Speaker 1: best you can to patch him up as the waves
Speaker 1: still come over the side. Another boat beside you takes
Speaker 1: a direct hit from an artillery round or mortar round.
Speaker 1: You don't know, but everyone in that boat is now
Speaker 1: pink missed. They're gone. And you know your job that
Speaker 1: day is to land on a narrow spit of beach
Speaker 1: underneath that cliff and climb to the top of it
Speaker 1: and kill everyone on top, or die trying. We're about
Speaker 1: to tell a little story today about and I'm going
Speaker 1: to screw up the pronunciation of this, because apparently no
Speaker 1: one knows how to pronounce it, including me. I have
Speaker 1: always called it point to hawk, I've heard it called,
Speaker 1: and I've done so much on this over the past
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Point d ho poind'hoe point too. I've
Speaker 1: heard it. We're just gonna call it the point for now.
Speaker 1: And what is it? Okay, Well, we'll get back to
Speaker 1: what it is in this story, but first let's do
Speaker 1: a setup for how we got here. How did these
Speaker 1: brave men in the Second Ranger Battalion find themselves in
Speaker 1: this situation at all? And remember this is eighty years
Speaker 1: ago today, and there are precious few of these men alive,
Speaker 1: and man, do they deserve all the respect in the world. Okay,
Speaker 1: so forget about that. We'll come back to that exact story.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to that moment. Let's do a little
Speaker 1: setup for what was going on. First D Day was
Speaker 1: called Operation Overlord, But what was the deal? People get?
Speaker 1: The World War Two can confuse people on how the
Speaker 1: timeline adds up. It's an odd kind of a timeline,
Speaker 1: especially if you listen to this show for any of time,
Speaker 1: where you find the Pacific portion of World War Two
Speaker 1: to be fascinating. It's weird when you find out, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, D Day was in nineteen forty four. The
Speaker 1: Pacific War had been going on for years before we
Speaker 1: finally launched into Europe and gained a foothold into Europe.
Speaker 1: Our guys, remember when we had that talk in the
Speaker 1: Pacific about our guys dying on Pelulu. We'd been marching
Speaker 1: through the Pacific fighting the Japanese, and finally we were
Speaker 1: fairly close to the Philippines. We'd already fought our way
Speaker 1: through Guadalcanal and all these places, and we were almost
Speaker 1: to the Philippines and we stopped in Pellu. And Pelolou
Speaker 1: was this terrible, terrible fight, and it was awful and
Speaker 1: things like that. Pelolu was actually not very well known,
Speaker 1: not talked about that much in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: Why all that fighting, all those islands, all that takeover,
Speaker 1: it had already happened by the time and Pelelu happened.
Speaker 1: That was day day. You see how different the timelines
Speaker 1: line up. We kind of tend to think in our minds,
Speaker 1: oh well, well, of course we're fighting back against the
Speaker 1: Japanese at the same time we're killing those dirty Germans.
Speaker 1: It didn't work that way at all. Now, there are
Speaker 1: many many reasons for this, but one of the main
Speaker 1: reasons was Hitler had fortified Europe. That is something you've
Speaker 1: probably heard of before, or at least you've heard that phrase,
Speaker 1: but what does that actually mean. Well, remember, let's focus
Speaker 1: on Germany for a moment. Germany. The Germans traditionally are
Speaker 1: outstanding militarily. I need to stress this point. A lot
Speaker 1: of the leaders, most of the leaders of the World
Speaker 1: War Two German Army, they were guys who were officers
Speaker 1: in the World War One German army, and the World
Speaker 1: War One German army was a maze. There are people
Speaker 1: I'm not enough of an expert to argue this point,
Speaker 1: that there are experts I have listened to, In fact,
Speaker 1: the experts I've talked to who will argue until they're
Speaker 1: blue in the face that the World War One German
Speaker 1: army is the finest army that has ever taken the
Speaker 1: field in the history of the world. That's how incredible
Speaker 1: the Germans were at fighting, organization, logistics, aggressive battle tactics.
Speaker 1: They were very, very, very good at what they did,
Speaker 1: and the evil of Nazism overshadows a lot of how
Speaker 1: good they were at what they did. I'll continue on
Speaker 1: with our D Day talk on this eightieth anniversary of
Speaker 1: D Day. In just a moment. Maybe you're eighty, maybe
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Speaker 2: He doesn't care if you believe him, but he's right.
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: In case you're just now joining us, good news, you
Speaker 1: didn't miss that much. We're doing D Day history today.
Speaker 1: I was kind of doing a setup on D Day,
Speaker 1: eightieth anniversary of D Day, And in fact we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell a more specific portion of D Day. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna do a general rue. I'm just doing a general
Speaker 1: overview right now to set us up. Also, I do
Speaker 1: need to remind you that tomorrow is Ask Doctor Jesse Friday,
Speaker 1: all three hours. I answer whatever questions you email into
Speaker 1: the show. They can be about anything. I don't care,
Speaker 1: but we just have fun on Fridays. Jesse at Jesse
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Speaker 1: me anything. All right, Back to D Day, Okay, So
Speaker 1: Hitler his German army, they were very very good in
Speaker 1: the very beginning, not because of Hitler, who was really,
Speaker 1: frankly a moron. But Hitler's generals leading the Wehrmacht were
Speaker 1: very capable men, very experienced men, and they had won
Speaker 1: some victory they weren't supposed to win. The Germans were
Speaker 1: not supposed to win the Battle of France on paper.
Speaker 1: We all look back now, we make fun of the
Speaker 1: French ah the French gave up on paper that French
Speaker 1: army should have defeated the Germans. The Germans were just
Speaker 1: better faster, smarter, It just got the job them. So
Speaker 1: while we had already been fighting in the Pacific for
Speaker 1: some time, a couple of years, while figuring out how
Speaker 1: do we get into Europe? And remember, getting into Europe
Speaker 1: with an army is way different than getting into Europe
Speaker 1: with one dude or with a unit. How do you
Speaker 1: get a beach head? Where do you get a beachhead?
Speaker 1: You have to have a beachhead, Remember a beachhead. It's
Speaker 1: simply you landing on the shore and taking enough land
Speaker 1: on the shore that you can bring all the men
Speaker 1: in equipment and the food and everything else you need
Speaker 1: on and begin a military campaign. How do you do that?
Speaker 1: When the German army is so good at fortification, at battle, doctrine,
Speaker 1: at these things, where do you even go? Do you
Speaker 1: try to come up from underneath? We tried that and
Speaker 1: there was horrible fighting in Italy. It was called the
Speaker 1: soft underbelly of Europe. It was by no means the
Speaker 1: soft underbelly of anything. Now, when the Italians were fighting it, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a soft underbelly of Europe. But as soon
Speaker 1: as the Germans came in and said, gosh, you guys suck,
Speaker 1: and the Germans took over those positions. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 1: Italy is it's a natural fortification. It's all mountains and
Speaker 1: valleys and rivers. You don't want to fight a bunch
Speaker 1: of Germans on the side of a friggin mountain when
Speaker 1: they're dug in. This is very hard. Where do you go?
Speaker 1: Eventually it was settled on by Roosevelt, Churchill and others
Speaker 1: that the only way you could possibly do this was
Speaker 1: across the English Channel. Across the English Channel going to
Speaker 1: northern France. Now, remember the other guy gets to say too,
Speaker 1: the other guy thinks too. The other guy's trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what you're doing. So Hitler had three thousand
Speaker 1: miles he had to fortify along his Atlantic Wall. Now,
Speaker 1: Germans are what they are. They're engineers, they're organized. There
Speaker 1: are people that are really really good at this kind
Speaker 1: of thing, and they make three thousand miles of hell
Speaker 1: it's three thousand miles of pillboxes, barbed wire tunnels, rail
Speaker 1: lines back and forth to supply troops, bombs, bullets, everything else.
Speaker 1: The intricacy of the defenses in Northern France and World
Speaker 1: War Two are honestly amazing. It is amazing. It is
Speaker 1: extensive what the Germans said done so America. They were
Speaker 1: getting ready to launch. Now, let's pause on America for
Speaker 1: a moment, because we're gonna go to the unit we're
Speaker 1: specifically talking about today, the Rangers. Everyone knows who Army
Speaker 1: Rangers are now, rightfully so, as much as it pains
Speaker 1: me to do so, Rangers are studs. Rangers are studs.
Speaker 1: The marine in me wants to just totally besmirch the Army,
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest with you. I love Army Rangers.
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of Army Ranger friends, and they
Speaker 1: are studs then. And now you meet an Army Ranger,
Speaker 1: you're meeting somebody. They were considered then. In fact, if
Speaker 1: you read stories about them now, they'll call the Rangers
Speaker 1: that were starting then the first of the special Forces.
Speaker 1: They were considered a special elite group. Here's what was
Speaker 1: going on. The United States Army knew by this point
Speaker 1: in time, the military knew that we were going to
Speaker 1: be going in through northern France. We'd been flying planes
Speaker 1: overhead trying to get what kind of terrain are we
Speaker 1: dealing with. We'd been dealing with French resistance fighters, who
Speaker 1: deserve all the credit in the world. We love to
Speaker 1: mock the French, and I love doing that too, because
Speaker 1: who doesn't like to mock the French. But the truth is,
Speaker 1: France itself has an incredible history of war and the
Speaker 1: French resistance fighters in World War Two after France fell,
Speaker 1: the guys, the men and women who decided to be spies, saboteurs,
Speaker 1: they are amazingly brave and a lot of those people
Speaker 1: they died doing what they did. They died, a lot
Speaker 1: of them died having their fingernails pulled out. That the
Speaker 1: French resistance is an underrated part of World War Two
Speaker 1: that people don't talk about. Well, the French resistance was
Speaker 1: feeding us intel two and we're going to come back
Speaker 1: to that in a little bit. Hey, this is the
Speaker 1: type of train, this is it, this is that. And
Speaker 1: as the Army was looking at what they had, they
Speaker 1: figured to themselves, man, we really need we need some
Speaker 1: specialists here. We are going to need more than just
Speaker 1: normal ground troops for what we're about to do. Yes,
Speaker 1: we need normal ground troops. We need guys who can
Speaker 1: go in on gliders, airborne troop types. We need guys
Speaker 1: who can scale cliffs and fight while they're doing it,
Speaker 1: and so the idea of these rangers began, and we'll
Speaker 1: come back to them in just a moment. Hang on
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Speaker 4: It is The Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday, the
Speaker 4: eightieth anniversary of D Day, and we are doing the
Speaker 4: best we can to honor those men and their sacrifice
Speaker 4: by telling their story, a more specific story about D
Speaker 4: Day than is normally told.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of giving an overview and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep zooming back in on the specifics. But right now,
Speaker 1: let's get back to those specifics we're talking about. The
Speaker 1: rain Army realizes they're going to have to navigate some
Speaker 1: extremely hostile terrain when they go into northern France, and
Speaker 1: cliffs are going to be part of that. Now, let's
Speaker 1: pause for a moment. How much experience do you have
Speaker 1: climbing cliffs. I do not have a lot, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you my experience in what it was in
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps. I've explained many times, when you're in
Speaker 1: an infantry unit, any kind of an infantry unit, you
Speaker 1: spend all your time training and training for different kinds
Speaker 1: of combat. They're going to send you to the jungle.
Speaker 1: They're going to send you to the desert. They're going
Speaker 1: to send you to the mountains. They send us to
Speaker 1: mountain warfare training. Almost every Marine, probably every infantry Marine
Speaker 1: goes to mountain warfare training. I did it myself with
Speaker 1: my unit. As part of mountain warfare training, we had
Speaker 1: to climb cliffs, climb mountains. We had a rock climb,
Speaker 1: we had to climb up them, and we had to
Speaker 1: repel down them. I personally am not a huge fan
Speaker 1: of heights. I used to be flat out scared of heights,
Speaker 1: but because of Marine Corps mountain warfare training, they essentially
Speaker 1: beat that out of you. You don't have it, I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't have an option when you're repelling off of
Speaker 1: an eighty foot cliff without any kind of a harness.
Speaker 1: It's just you and your pack on in a rope.
Speaker 1: You gotta got up. You gotta got up, I mean
Speaker 1: no other way. And so yeah, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you this, climbing and going down. We'll focus on going
Speaker 1: up because that's what these rangers are gonna end up doing.
Speaker 1: Climbing itself with nobody else there is exhausting and it's terrifying,
Speaker 1: the fear of heights, which is really the fear of
Speaker 1: falling is one of, if not the most reasonable phobias.
Speaker 1: I don't want to fall from some high place. I sawes.
Speaker 1: I saw marines have mental breaks. I won't call it
Speaker 1: breakdowns because they ended up getting their stuff together. I
Speaker 1: saw marines have mental breaks in mountain warfare training in peacetime.
Speaker 1: No bombs, no grenades, no Germans, nothing but support all
Speaker 1: around them. You get halfway up a sixty foot rock
Speaker 1: face and you get yourself stuck, or you get yourself
Speaker 1: This happened a lot. In fact, this happened to me.
Speaker 1: You get yourself exhausted. It's so physically grueling, physically exhausted
Speaker 1: that you can be climbing up and doing fine in
Speaker 1: your techniques, fine, and you even have a route picked
Speaker 1: and you're going, but it is so taxing on your hands,
Speaker 1: your forearms, your legs, if you're not holding your feet
Speaker 1: the proper way. It's very tempting to keep your heels
Speaker 1: above your toes. That's a human nature thing. Well, if
Speaker 1: you do that, your legs will be shot. You have
Speaker 1: to keep your heels below your toes as you climb.
Speaker 1: It's just it's exhausting. This is in peacetime, you can
Speaker 1: find yourself stuck on the side of a cliff exhausted.
Speaker 1: Now let's go back to these rangers. They decide they're
Speaker 1: gonna start some rangers. They begin training in Tennessee. They
Speaker 1: bring in two thousand men. These are picked from the
Speaker 1: cream of the crop from the army. And it was
Speaker 1: all volunteer. If you were a stud with some army
Speaker 1: unit and you wanted the opportunity to be a ranger,
Speaker 1: you signed up and you volunteered, and they wanted to
Speaker 1: go see what you were made of. How brutal was it.
Speaker 1: Two thousand of the best signed up and walked in.
Speaker 1: Five hundred walked out as rangers. It was brutal training
Speaker 1: they put them through, and the rangers. I was actually
Speaker 1: listening to some one of these old rangers this morning
Speaker 1: when I was on the way in. It was funny
Speaker 1: talking about it. Said we were doing so much mountain
Speaker 1: climbing and cliff climbing. He said, we weren't stupid. We
Speaker 1: figured out wherever they're sending us good memory. They didn't
Speaker 1: know wherever they're sending us. Wherever we're going, it's going
Speaker 1: to involve some climbing. I know it's going to involve climbing.
Speaker 1: And the heights alone were breaking. Men, men were quitting,
Speaker 1: men were falling. Men couldn't handle it. And they take
Speaker 1: these two thousand men and whittle them down to five
Speaker 1: hundred rangers. These rangers eventually are trained up, ready to
Speaker 1: go and off to Europe. They go. Now, let's pause
Speaker 1: on Operation Overlord or on the Ranges for a moment
Speaker 1: and go back to Operation Overlord, because this is what's happening.
Speaker 1: As we prepare for the invasion. Hitler knows we're coming.
Speaker 1: He's got spies all over England. He's got planes overhead.
Speaker 1: The Germans were not fools. They knew we were coming somewhere.
Speaker 1: They knew we had large quantities of troops and gear
Speaker 1: in England. They knew we were going to trust across
Speaker 1: the English Channel. They're not stupid. The question was where.
Speaker 1: So we did many, many, many different things to attempt
Speaker 1: to deceive the Germans. And there are fascinating books written
Speaker 1: about this. I won't go into a bunch of detail
Speaker 1: about it. Paten, Jewish producer Christians, brought this up. Where
Speaker 1: was Patent during all this? Remember, Paten, he had already
Speaker 1: been he was already a legend by this time because
Speaker 1: he had already been fighting in Africa, beating up Rammel
Speaker 1: and the Germans in Africa. Patten was a legend, so
Speaker 1: Paten would be the natural leader for an invasion like this,
Speaker 1: except Patten had been sidelined. If you've ever seen the movie,
Speaker 1: or maybe you've read the book, you understand what happened.
Speaker 1: Patten is one of these old school, hard charging types,
Speaker 1: the kind of general you'd want leading you in combat.
Speaker 1: Paten uh not a man who was a big believer
Speaker 1: in PTSD, if you will. Patten walks into a hospital.
Speaker 1: He goes in to visit his wounded men. Guys are there,
Speaker 1: shot to pieces, missing limbs, and Patten comes across a
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have any physical injuries, and Patten just
Speaker 1: kind of a I lib the whole thing here, says
Speaker 1: what's wrong? Why are you here? You're right beside a
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have a leg Why are you here?
Speaker 1: And the guy explains to Patten, probably justly, I don't
Speaker 1: know that mentally he can't do it anymore. That wasn't
Speaker 1: really the kind of thing you said to George Patten.
Speaker 1: George Patten, in a famous incident, slapped the guy called
Speaker 1: him a coward, called him yellow. And this immediately hits
Speaker 1: the American papers. In case you thought that worthless journalists
Speaker 1: were just a new invention, they were around back in
Speaker 1: the forties too. America's bleeding heart loser newspaper writers took
Speaker 1: this story and began to destroy Patten's reputation. Who's this
Speaker 1: evil monster all these other things. Well, now Roosevelt feels
Speaker 1: pressure to act. Remember Roosevelt still a politician who has
Speaker 1: to win reelection about a thousand times. Anyway, Roosevelt needs
Speaker 1: to take patent off the battlefield. But you can't really
Speaker 1: take patent off the battlefield completely because he's so good
Speaker 1: at what he does. In one of the coolest little
Speaker 1: side stories you may have never heard before, the Germans surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1: They were very organized and they were very knowledgeable about
Speaker 1: the different generals they were facing, and they had grades
Speaker 1: for the different generals. Hey, this guy's on the defense.
Speaker 1: We don't want to face him. This guy's kind of
Speaker 1: a loser. Let's hope he attacks us. There the top
Speaker 1: rated general for the offensive for the Germans, if they
Speaker 1: had to face one guy who was charging them, attacking them,
Speaker 1: Patton was number He was the one they feared the most.
Speaker 1: He was too smart, too aggressive. He knew about flanking,
Speaker 1: he knew about speed, and Roosevelt knew this too. He
Speaker 1: was too valuable. So you have to sideline Patten. You
Speaker 1: can't sideline pat So Patton got involved in this operation.
Speaker 1: Overlord and I will come back and I'll continue our
Speaker 1: talk here. I don't have any idea how long this
Speaker 1: is gonna go. It's probably gonna be a while. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I did want to read this really quickly here. It's
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Speaker 4: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday.
Speaker 2: This is normally a political slash funny slash food talk show,
Speaker 2: but as you know, it's a history show from time
Speaker 2: to time because that's what I love so much, and
Speaker 2: there are so many great lessons there.
Speaker 1: And today's the eightieth anniversary of D Day and so
Speaker 1: we are talking about that. If you're just now joining
Speaker 1: us and you're worried.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I missed out on a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 2: well you did.
Speaker 1: But don't worry. I'm not near done yet. If you
Speaker 1: missed any part of it you want the whole recap,
Speaker 1: you can download a podcast to the show on iHeart,
Speaker 1: Spotify iTunes. Also, remember tomorrow's Ask Doctor Jesse Friday, So
Speaker 1: get your questions emailed in right now to Jesse at
Speaker 1: Jesse kellyshow dot Com. Back to Operation Overlord D day,
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to the second Ranger Battalion in
Speaker 1: a moment. Patten had been sidelined because he slapped some
Speaker 1: dude who claimed he had PTSD, but not totally sidelined.
Speaker 1: We were doing all kinds of things trying to fool
Speaker 1: the Germans where we were gonna land. Patten was put
Speaker 1: in charge of a lot of this on the English side.
Speaker 1: If you've ever heard or read stories about inflatable tanks
Speaker 1: and fake troops and things like that, it was Patten
Speaker 1: who was leading all that stuff. He was in England
Speaker 1: handling all that. You can sideline Patten, but you can't
Speaker 1: sideline him all the way. Guys like that win wars
Speaker 1: for you. Now back to the day, we had been
Speaker 1: using our air Force, even though the Army Air Force,
Speaker 1: to keep in mind the actual air Force didn't exist yet.
Speaker 1: Using the Army Air Force, we were bombing the living
Speaker 1: daylights out of all parts of this coastline. Remember I said,
Speaker 1: there's three thousand mile and three thousand miles of Atlantic coastline.
Speaker 1: Remember you can't just bomb the part you want to
Speaker 1: land in, because then you're telling the Germans exactly what's
Speaker 1: coming now, Baz, Let's talk about the Germans set up
Speaker 1: for a moment, because for the point of our story
Speaker 1: this actually is fairly important. Okay, So Normandy, north of France,
Speaker 1: you have seen, Chris, that was my chair. I accidentally
Speaker 1: banged it on the desk. That is that what you heard?
Speaker 1: Is that coming? That is that the microphone picking that up?
Speaker 1: Oh well, Chris, dude, can't you do some radio stuff
Speaker 1: with that? Anyway? So the German side northern of France.
Speaker 1: North of France, you obviously you know that there are
Speaker 1: beaches there. I'm not going to insult your intelligence. You
Speaker 1: know there are some cliffs there. In fact, that's going
Speaker 1: to be a huge part of our story. Yes, the
Speaker 1: Germans had so many positions set up above these beaches,
Speaker 1: on the cliffs, on the hills above the beaches. They
Speaker 1: had all kinds of not just machine gun nests, bunkers,
Speaker 1: pill boxes and other things. They had various things in
Speaker 1: the water out in the water. If you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: like saving Private Ryan's a great example of this. Kids,
Speaker 1: not for you, ask mom and dad first, please anyway,
Speaker 1: saving Private Ryan the gigantic anything you can do to
Speaker 1: block boats from coming in. Some of these were steel,
Speaker 1: some of these were concrete. But anything you can do,
Speaker 1: the Germans had done it. Barbed wire everywhere. Now that
Speaker 1: was the hills and that was the beaches. But there
Speaker 1: was more to the setup behind all this. Right behind
Speaker 1: all those guns and machine gun nests and things like that.
Speaker 1: Up on the hills, there were roads and there were
Speaker 1: rail lines, mini rail lines. Some the Germans had built,
Speaker 1: some were already there. The purpose of this was because
Speaker 1: we didn't know, or we didn't know because they didn't
Speaker 1: know where the Allies were going to land. You had
Speaker 1: to have if you were the Germans, you had to
Speaker 1: have the ability to move men in equipment back and
Speaker 1: forth quickly. So if we happen to land down gear,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna go down there. And to give you
Speaker 1: some idea of the size, and this is hard to
Speaker 1: visualize radio wise, but let me give you some idea
Speaker 1: of the size. The Normandy D Day landings, the beach
Speaker 1: landings that you've read about, that you know about, that
Speaker 1: you've seen in the movies. There were five of them,
Speaker 1: five different landings. I'm not gonna name them. All details
Speaker 1: ruined the story. Don't worry about that. The only two
Speaker 1: worry about for our purposes today. Were the two American ones,
Speaker 1: Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. One of those stretches alone
Speaker 1: you tend to think about, at least I do. I
Speaker 1: tend to think about them as being small. If you
Speaker 1: had asked me, hey, how long was this one stretch
Speaker 1: of beach? I would say five hundred yards? Sounds reasonable, right,
Speaker 1: five hundred yards pretty long? Try six thousand. That's one stretch,
Speaker 1: and there were five landing six thousands. So these things
Speaker 1: are stretched out back to the Germans behind the lines, roads, railways,
Speaker 1: moving German troops, equipment, bombs, bullets, everything back and forth
Speaker 1: behind them. Behind those people, they had so many German
Speaker 1: reserves reserve units that were stationed behind the lines, so
Speaker 1: they could then quickly mobilize and charge up to the
Speaker 1: line wherever the Allies ended up landing. Okay, it makes sense,
Speaker 1: all right, now pause on that. We'll come back to
Speaker 1: that in a moment. It's time to actually dig in
Speaker 1: to the second Ranger Battalion. Will I finish this history
Speaker 1: story next segment? Don't say no, Chris, I might. I'm
Speaker 1: I might not. My focus is just stay focused. Do
Speaker 1: I care? No, I don't know we're gonna tell the
Speaker 1: story until the story's done being told. Now, maybe right
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Speaker 1: are Yes, I'm gonna get to Biden's comments today, Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton's comments today. I saw all the stuff that any
Speaker 1: McKay was talking about. The FBI. Former FBI agent's, current
Speaker 1: FBI agents are worried about being locked up. Trump sat down,
Speaker 1: He's talking about retribution, Will he do it or not?
Speaker 1: Biden with his with his Vladimir Putin comments, and many
Speaker 1: other things. All these things are still to come. But
Speaker 1: for now, we're going to tell the story that was
Speaker 1: all the overview. It's all done. Now we're going to
Speaker 1: tell the story of the Second Ranger Battalion eighty years
Speaker 1: ago today and what they did for each other and
Speaker 1: for this country. Hang on.