Collected episode seven: D-Day and the Australian connection

It’s 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy, France – the Allied invasion which led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany. In Episode 7 of Collected, Louise Maher talks to Senior Curator Shane Casey about the small but important role Australians played in the campaign and shares first-hand accounts from some of the servicemen who risk their lives to be there.

Credits

Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:

• Shane Casey, Senior Curator Military Heraldry and Technology

Original music: Andy Heaney – Vice Like Grip

Featured collection items

British Broadcasting Corporation gramophone R.A.A.F Squadron in France containing recordings of Pilot Officer Clarence Athol Rice and Warrant Officer Jack Steward, 16 July 1944. (Audio use courtesy of BBC)

Oral histories:

• Commander Dean Robertson Murray RAN (Rtd), interviewed by Simone Sharp, 28 January 2004
• Flight Lieutenant Ronald Herbert Prentice, interviewed by John White, 1 May 2007
• Major Henry (Jo) Baynton Somer Gullet, interviewed by Sarah Howse, 7 March 1993