to land on gold beach during d day. the sights he witnessed would stay with him for the rest of his life always determined to remember those who were left behind. and it was hell. i never seen anything like it in me life. you had the ships firing over you and you had the germans firing from inland. 88 millimetre guns they used, which would blow you off the face of the earth. saw you on the telly. in recent years, he devoted as much time as he could to raising money to help build the first memorial on the normandy coastline to honour the men and women under british command who died on the beaches and the battlefields beyond. there s about 35 quid there, harry. he raised more than £50,000 for the memorial. mr harry billinge for services to charitable funding. - ..and was awarded an mbe by the queen for
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western alliance remaining together. just in the background, by the way, there are helicopters arriving and i think, in fact, that may well be marine one coming in now to omaha beach. it is. he s a little late, but we l he will, in fact, make it on stage for the top of the hour. there was a concern that if he was late that would show scrabble disrespect not just for the french president and to their veterans who are here, but also to the whole ceremony, the idea that the president might have left his golf club in western ireland a little bit late. but it does now appear his helicopter is touching down, touching down here on sacred ground. this is omaha beach the american cemetery overlooking bloody omaha, the deadliest beach of the five stretched along this normandy coastline where so many americans lost their lives. as you can see behind me if you re still with me, there are
ago, at this time, at this moment, on the normandy coastline, all is quiet. but as we know from reading our history books, just a few hours later all hell broke loose on the land and the sea end up in the area. there was a bit of action this morning, just a short distance from where we are. u.s. army special forces units reenacted the scaling of the cliffs aimed at knocking out the german artillery there. but as you noted, the first ones in on june 6th, 1944, those u.s. paratroopers trying to catch the enemy unaware. instead, their planes ran into a massive barrage of gunfire. one of those getting ready to jump into this living hell. then-19-year-old eugene. take a listen to how he felt. we probably had about ten more minutes of light, maybe 12. so antiaircraft fire all around? yeah. and machine gun fire.
i m on my way to normandy. reporter: they have yet to meet one another, but they already share a bond. they were all there that morning, june 6th, 1944. the largest amphibious invasion in military history. 50 miles of normandy coastline, the beaches with codenames. utah, omaha, gold, juno and sword. and what they did would change the course of the war. harold himmelsbach remembers the wakeup at 3:00 a.m. it was not long after. when you looked around and saw all of those ships, did you think, this is actually happening? you bet. yes, i sure did. reporter: could you see the beach? it was just a couple thousand yards, you know. reporter: and then they saw things they will never forget. harold mcmurran, fourth infantry division. first, i was afraid, then i was scared, and then i was numb. the medics was overwhelmed, with wounded people, sometimes they were wounded themselves, trying to they would try to perform,
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