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Catalogue number | REC 562 | ||||||||||
Title | Victory in Europe - 1945 | ||||||||||
Artist(s) | Various | ||||||||||
Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
Record condition | Good | ||||||||||
BBC records label code | E | ||||||||||
Item deleted? | Yes | ||||||||||
Released | 1985 | ||||||||||
Distributed / printed by | PRT RECORDS (Sales) LTD | ||||||||||
Country of origin | UK | ||||||||||
Media type | Primary | ||||||||||
Media genre | Documentaries View all other tracks listed as Documentaries. | ||||||||||
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes | REC - 562 - A2 S 1 MT. DAMONT REC - 562 - B2 S 1 MT. DAMONT | ||||||||||
Lacquer cut at and by | Damont. Information provided by Discogs website. | ||||||||||
My rating | ***** | ||||||||||
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Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
What type of seller was used? | Physical shop | ||||||||||
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A1 | Commander in Chief of British Armies in France, delivers a message to his men . . . 'Forward Into Germany'. 17/9/44 [Field Marshall Montgomery] | ||||||||||
A2 | Announces that the first US army has crossed The Rhine at Remagen. 8/3/45 [Ian Wilson] | ||||||||||
A3 | Describes the breakthrough at Wesel Bridge-Head. 11/3/45 [Chester Wilmot] | ||||||||||
A4 | Reports the biggest airborne attack ever launched as 6000 Allied aircraft cross The Rhine. 24/3/45 [Richard Dimbleby] | ||||||||||
A5 | Vividly describes crossing The Rhine with the attacking Allied Troops. 24/3/45 [Wynford Vaughan-Thomas] | ||||||||||
A6 | Is caught up in the advancing Allied formations . . . 'Almost like a day at Brooklands'. 28/3/45 [Stewart MacPherson] | ||||||||||
A7 | Sees the Prime Minister cross The Rhine and inspect the battlefield. 25/3/45 [Robert Barr] | ||||||||||
A8 | Experiences a real feeling of conquest and an end to it all. 31/5/45 [Wynford Vaughan-Thomas] | ||||||||||
A9 | Hears the BBC news in a German country hotel. 8/4/45 [Richard Dimbleby] | ||||||||||
A10 | Is liberated by American troops after four years in a POW camp. 31/3/45 [Edward Ward] | ||||||||||
A11 | Enters Ziegenhain POW camp after its 1200 British inmates had been liberated by General Patton's forces. 3/4/45 [Robert Reid] | ||||||||||
A12 | Describes the scene as Belsen's Gates are opened. 19/4/45 [Richard Dimbleby] | ||||||||||
B1 | In the 'Nazi Party Hall Of Honour' in the town of Buchholz . . . 'This nursery of fanaticism'. 24/4/45 [Wynford Vaughan-Thomas] | ||||||||||
B2 | BBC newsflash 'Hitler is dead' [Stuart Hibberd] | ||||||||||
B3 | Outside Hitler's chancellery. A later recording. 4/7/45 [Richard Dimbleby] | ||||||||||
B4 | Interrupts a programme to announce the latest news from Moscow, that Berlin has fallen. 2/5/45 [Stuart Hibberd] | ||||||||||
B5 | Reports from the devastated German capital and declares that 'Berlin has practically ceased to exist'. 9/5/45 [Thomas Cadett] | ||||||||||
B6 | Makes his last emotional broadcast from Reichsender Hamburg on the 31 metre band 'You may not hear from me again' . . . / Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Does a passable 'Germany calling' imp [William Joyce] | ||||||||||
B7 | Reads the terms of unconditional surrender at the Ceremony of Signature on Lneburg Heath. 7/5/45 [Field Marshall Montgomery] | ||||||||||
B8 | Is overwhelmed by a 'Very good lunch' and Russian hospitality as the U.S. First Army and the Fifth Ukrainian army link up. 23/4/45 [Edward Ward] | ||||||||||
B9 | Witnesses the signing of unconditional surrender by General Jodl at supreme headquarters. 7/5/45 [Thomas Cadett] | ||||||||||
B10 | Announces victory in Europe day. 7/5/45 [John Snagge] | ||||||||||
B11 | Proclaims the German surrender . . . 'We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing'. 8/5/45 [The Prime Minister] | ||||||||||
B12 | Records that 'The enemy has been finally overcome'. 8/5/45 [H. M. King George VI] | ||||||||||
B13 | Victory day speech. 8/5/45 [Field Marshall Montgomery] | ||||||||||
B14 | Expresses a common feeling . . . 'I wish that FDR had lived to see this day'. 8/5/45 [President Truman] | ||||||||||
B15 | Joins the crowds as the Prime Minister appears on the Ministry of Health balcony, complete with boiler suit and homburg. 8/5/45 [Richard Dimbleby] | ||||||||||
Total length of media 0:00. |
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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
Broadcasts and reports from BBC War Correspondents - Spring 1945. The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill appears by courtesy of the Decca Record Co. Sleeve designed byMario Moscardini Researched by Alison Johnston Produced byMark Jones William Grierson | ||
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