alex kershaw

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NY Times best-selling author of The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, #TheLiberator etc. Public speaker, journalist and tour leader. Historian @WWIIMemorial

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The deadliest place on D Day on this longest of days, where the sacrifice has been greatest: Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach, where 19 Bedford Boys have died, where more than half of their infantry company has been slaughtered, and where the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan are set.

"Bloody Omaha" where 34,000 US troops are now headed.

We’ve hit the 400/mile long Siegfried Line in Belgium. These dragon’s teeth could stop any tank.

Here we go. Market Garden h hour. Drop zone for 101st Airborne right now.

How to make sure the greatest generation are never forgotten. Right now in Holland.

Easy Red, Omaha Beach. Mid-tide - add another 100 yards of beach, and you'll have the distance the 16th Inf. crossed under machinegunfire 'like rain', with 70-pound packs, and wet uniforms. The exit in the dunes at the end of the video is where the first Americans broke out.

Utah, where 23,000 American troops are headed now.

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day at WW2 Memorial right now.

So close but so far. The view from the Old Church of the John Frost bridge at Arnhem.

The Olympic stadium at Garmisch, site of the 1936 "Nazi' Winter Olympics, hosted by Hitler, where alpine skiing made its debut.

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Foxholes of Band of Brothers at Bois Jacques, near Bastogne, right now.

More than 300 Americans died in the air this afternoon.

Pointe du Hoc. Now being held - but only just - by 2nd Rangers who'll fight almost nonstop for another 48 hours until relieved. Over 50% are casualties. They've scaled cliffs below.

The calm before the storm. Pointe du Hoc. The most dangerous mission on D-Day, according to Omar Bradley. 225 men will fight here late tonight, US time. 77 will be killed, and more than 140 will be wounded.

Streetfighting....You're not supposed to bunch. You're supposed to keep your head up and keep moving. If you're in your first big urban battle in Germany, in Aachen today in 1944, and carrying a mortar base or machine gun....it's one hell of an obstacle course...

Where the first Americans got off Omaha Beach at 8am this morning. Courage counts. Just a few men changed history here. I owe them my life.

Welcome to Bastogne. The Battle of the Bulge Memorial.

Lovely day for paying respects to an epic warrior, as described in my book, Against All Odds.

The first British paratroopers have just reached the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem, the legendary "bridge too far."

Dog Green, Omaha, where Saving Private Ryan happened. A and B Companies of 116th have been slaughtered. Dozens of bodies wash ashore, the wounded have drowned because the tide is so fast. Any men alive are pinned down by the sea-wall. A bloody disaster.

Lt. Colonel Robert Cole, the legendary paratrooper leader, has been shot in the head and killed.

Band of Brothers memorial near Bastogne. Right now.

Patton’s boys and their brothers. Where am I?

Taps for those who today gave their tomorrows for our many todays. Coleville sur Mer graveyard.

Paying my respects to my late father and to his fellow British who made last stand at Arnhem at the old church in Oosterbeek 80 years ago. This is the most moving place I have been as a Brit in Europe.

The great man. The Patton memorial in Ettelbruck. See my last book, Patton’s Prayer, for the story of his final year. Do you think he was the most effective US Army commander of WW2?

How the Brits took Pegasus Bridge. The greatest coup de main in British history.

Easy Red, Omaha Beach.