Bannon's War Room - June 06, 2024


Episode 3664： WarRoom D-Day Special： 80 Years Later


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Remembering the men and women who died at the beaches of Normandy in World War Two. Listen to the words of General George S. McAdoo as he recalls the landings of D-Day and the landing of the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

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00:00:00.000 Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force,
00:00:04.740 you are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.
00:00:11.160 The eyes of the world are upon you.
00:00:13.780 The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
00:00:18.940 In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts,
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00:00:26.880 the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe,
00:00:30.500 and security for ourselves in a free world.
00:00:34.260 Your task will not be an easy one.
00:00:36.820 Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened.
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00:00:50.320 The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle.
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00:00:57.940 Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air
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00:01:05.340 Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war,
00:01:11.160 and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
00:01:16.240 The tide has turned.
00:01:18.100 The free men of the world are marching together to victory.
00:01:21.020 I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.
00:01:27.180 We will accept nothing less than full victory.
00:01:30.940 Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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00:16:51.260 Gold Group. The 80th Commemoration Day. It's been three, Dave, I think it's been three years and
00:16:58.440 six months, three years and five months from the 20th of January. It was only about two and a half
00:17:03.560 years. I mean, they got to Normandy to the landings in two and a half years. Remember the first part
00:17:09.200 of it in 42, late in 42, I think in October, September, October, they finally, the American 0.95
00:17:15.400 troops finally landed in North Africa, Operation Torch, and were able to relieve the British fight
00:17:20.540 with the British and drive Rommel out of North Africa, save Egypt and Cairo, Alexandria,
00:17:27.100 eventually, then went to Sicily, then went to Italy, and kind of a, at least Italy's been
00:17:32.180 always looked at maybe as a delaying action so that our bombers could take care of the
00:17:37.580 industrial strength of Germany. And remember, it was that 8th Air Corps, it was the American
00:17:43.180 bombers early in the war and in the spring of 1942, 90 days into the war, 100 days into
00:17:49.480 the war, virtually unprepared for what was going to hit them. In fact, the British would 0.98
00:17:54.300 only do nighttime precision bombing. Daylight precision bombing was the only way to take
00:17:58.460 out the German industrial strength, and it was the Americans that did that. This is obviously 0.87
00:18:04.000 one of the high holy days in American civic life. It's been, and I don't want to politicize
00:18:10.040 this too much, but it has been politicized, and particularly now, and I have, I take great
00:18:15.800 offense for the men who died at Normandy, that Zelensky's actually been invited to some of
00:18:24.900 these things. And here's the reason, is that the, obviously Putin, he can't come. I mean,
00:18:31.020 they had some Russian leaders for a while. You can't invite the KGB guys. They're as bad as
00:18:34.300 they get. They're as bad as the Mullahs in the leadership over there, as bad as the Mullahs 1.00
00:18:38.980 in Persia, and they're bad as the Chinese Communist Party. They're all partners together. 1.00
00:18:42.320 But the Russian people were our great ally. I hate to be brutally frank, but you look on
00:18:47.320 that reviewing stand, 90% of the nations up there in the reviewing stand lost no men on
00:18:53.480 D-Day. It was the Canadians. It was the, and the Canadians have always been great, always
00:18:59.060 punched above their weight. The British, the Americans, and you had, I think, a Polish, 1.00
00:19:04.560 you had Polish paratroopers. De Gaulle had, I think they threw together a division. But
00:19:11.400 most of the other nations, Spain, Italy, the Scandinavia were either neutral, had, and Norway
00:19:18.680 had Quisling, had already, had already become a Nazi, a German, you know, partner. The Irish, 0.81
00:19:26.080 although a lot of Irishmen fought, particularly American Irishmen fought, Ireland was, was
00:19:31.480 neutral at best, and argued that, that maybe even gave sustenance to some of the submarine
00:19:37.420 warfare. So here, and they're trying to make it so political, this about NATO, this about
00:19:42.940 the strength of NATO, this about this new land war. I think what the lesson, one of the lessons
00:19:48.600 we should take is American sacrifice, and not just treasure, but blood, American blood and 0.69
00:19:53.960 treasure. It is, you know, time for the world's elite. You're just not going to have America
00:20:00.160 because it shouldn't have to do this. This was the, I mean, we went in World War I, and
00:20:05.940 we were the deciding factor. We came in late, and we took massive casualties. But the German, 1.00
00:20:10.820 particularly the German army, realized if the Americans come in here with their industrial
00:20:14.140 strength, unscathed by this war, and there's a lot of debate about, you know, the Zimmerman
00:20:19.140 telegram to Mexico, the Lusitania, a lot of things Wilson did to get us in the war because
00:20:24.420 he was the first, you know, true globalist. And it hurts me to say, coming from the, he
00:20:29.020 came from the Commonwealth of Virginia. But Dave, you know, we were at World War I, the
00:20:34.820 peace treaty didn't solve the problems. It just made the problems worse of all these decayed,
00:20:40.700 and one thing you see in World War I is all the decay, these empires run by these monarchs,
00:20:45.480 I mean, just absolutely horrific, didn't take care of the people. The casualties in
00:20:50.840 World War I, particularly in the first two years, are so mind-numbing. You go from absolute
00:20:54.540 peace, really, they said one of the most beautiful summers in 1914, in living memory, to absolute
00:21:00.260 catastrophic war. The problems were not solved. And this gets back to what the founders told
00:21:06.340 us. You don't need to go over, please don't go back to Europe looking for monsters to slay.
00:21:12.020 But we got into World War II. A lot of people don't know the fact that after the Japanese
00:21:18.760 bombed us, we did not, we declared war, actually, even in declaring war, Roosevelt went to Congress
00:21:26.020 and said, we are in a state of war with, and now they voted, we're in a state of war with
00:21:30.080 Japan because they attacked us, you know, a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. We did not 0.98
00:21:36.020 declare war on Germany. And that was a big debate behind the scenes. We did not declare war
00:21:40.020 on Germany. Hitler declared war on us a couple of days later. Hitler had a very bad, very bad
00:21:45.920 1941, going after the Russians in June, I think it was, and then taking on the Americans 0.80
00:21:51.780 in December. Those two nations, along with the Chinese people, essentially broke the fascists
00:21:58.720 back on this great land war. But 80 years later, the question is, what lessons have we learned?
00:22:04.160 And I have a problem with having Zelensky when they openly have the Azov battalions and they 1.00
00:22:10.020 have, they have battalions of people that have fascist and Nazi roots that Boris Johnson's
00:22:15.980 taking pictures with. And they got these ultra nationalist Russians who thinks Putin's too
00:22:20.720 big a wuss that are, that are fascist. And you got to think back to the, uh, to the men
00:22:25.520 that, that, uh, that lost their lives on this day. And it was horrific. And we still don't
00:22:29.400 know. That's why saving private Ryan shocked people so much. They didn't understand how
00:22:35.280 bad those first wave. And listen, listen, the thing about those guys and the Bedford boys
00:22:40.540 from down in Bedford, Virginia, down in your neck of the woods. Now the 29th infantry division
00:22:45.300 completely slaughtered. Um, they knew the, the first guys out. In fact, we had Tommy Tuberville
00:22:51.660 yesterday with one of these great stories, the landing craft operators, you know, the, the,
00:22:57.220 the, they were taken incoming like crazy to go up there and let that tank off in just
00:23:02.200 the five feet of water. It would survive. A lot of people started thinking, rethinking
00:23:06.520 their options and said, maybe I'll drop this off now. Oh, and the water's 30 feet, but
00:23:11.480 that tanks, that tank can't flow. It's going to go right to the bottom, but that's, that's
00:23:14.640 human preservation. Those guys in the first wave, the first couple of waves. And as we
00:23:19.240 do here, and we'll do it now, I think Paris fell in the middle of August, but the battle
00:23:24.340 of Normandy went up to like mid to late July, we'll cover it every couple of days and give
00:23:28.320 you an update. But the battle of Normandy overall is one of the most horrific battles in American
00:23:33.720 history. And one of the reasons they spent so much time training in combined arms to get
00:23:40.360 on the beach, take the beach and then get a beachhead. And none of the D-Day objectives,
00:23:45.880 according to the planners were actually achieved on D-Day, right? You get more men in the next 1.00
00:23:50.740 day, was able to push through, get off the beach, but the objectives in them were not
00:23:54.920 taken. But the heroism is also that whole battle that took place. And if Patton, they
00:24:01.400 hadn't brought Patton in a month or two into this thing for Tommy Tuberville's dad, we'd
00:24:06.440 never gotten there. Your thoughts?
00:24:08.560 Yeah, well, yesterday, just a great show with Senator Tuberville. He's one of my favorite
00:24:12.960 guys in the universe. And your show with him just spoke to it. And the joy, you could see,
00:24:19.460 right? It's interesting how God works in the world through decimation and suffering of World
00:24:25.080 War II, but the greatness, right? And then Tuberville comes out and says a couple of interesting
00:24:29.020 things. One, after all the suffering, his dad's tank mate shot the Ark to Triumph or something
00:24:34.960 like that, right? And they said, why did you do that? He said, we were so happy. He said,
00:24:39.200 we're celebrating, right?
00:24:40.180 Boys from Arkansas. 0.56
00:24:41.340 So this is the basic American spirit. When we were great, and then the people that put down
00:24:45.700 nationalism and American, this is what you're putting down, right? And so Tuberville also
00:24:50.780 noted the improbability of being able to have land forces like that today, the army willing
00:24:57.320 to fight. And so what's changed is the attack on God and country and all the higher elements
00:25:05.740 that make America so great, right? And that's the change. And you look at, it used to be a
00:25:11.980 simpler world in some ways, right? It was kinetic wars. And you could see the death and mutilation,
00:25:17.460 et cetera. Now the neo-Marxists, it's a war of the intellect and of the soul. The Marxists
00:25:23.240 are crushing the soul of this country. And that's what the new fight is. And if somebody
00:25:27.500 punches your kid in the face, you wouldn't have five seconds of it. But if they punch your
00:25:31.500 kid and they ruin his intellect and they ruin your kid's mind and they ruin your soul, 0.94
00:25:35.920 you better learn to stand up and fight. That's what this is about today.
00:25:38.920 Let's take it not just from Dave Brant. Let's hear from one of the greatest generations.
00:25:42.080 Got a short clip on that.
00:25:44.020 The real truth?
00:25:45.400 Yeah.
00:25:45.900 I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times. And I don't like it. It makes
00:25:51.400 my heart real heavy. And I just hope when you pull out of this, there's too much Hollywood
00:25:59.000 going on in Washington all the time. The important subjects they don't cover. So the thing is,
00:26:05.540 I hope all the guys will rally up and we'll go back and straighten it all out.
00:26:14.080 Right there, you hear from the greatest generation. It feels like a foreigner. All those guys in 1.00
00:26:18.000 the first wave, if they were back here today and seeing what's happened in the schools, to
00:26:21.740 see what happened, the lack of respect, to see the lack of patriotism, to have the neo-Marxists
00:26:26.980 in charge of the universities, in charge of culture, in charge of pop culture, up here in Capitol
00:26:31.360 Hill to see what's happening in this country, they'd be repulsed by it, wouldn't they?
00:26:33.980 I mean, that's the people that, they talk about the greatest generation. And Matt, as you say,
00:26:37.700 the greatest generation's greatest grift is the post-war international rules-based order.
00:26:42.820 Well, it's the elites that use that to game the system to extract wealth for themselves,
00:26:47.080 to make the Chinese Communist Party a partner in, and to basically cut out the core of this
00:26:53.380 country. The men that died that day would never envision a strong industrial America with
00:26:59.500 great workers, great jobs. That is actually, at the end of the day, the thing that empowered
00:27:04.860 us, the reason we had so few casualties, I think under a million casualties in World War
00:27:08.400 II. And the reason was, or under a million dead, the reason was our great industrial strength.
00:27:14.360 Yeah, that's right. And one of our great congressmen, Byron Donalds, has taken it on the chops for comments
00:27:20.260 and whatever. But this all goes back, right? If you look at the general decay of the United States
00:27:25.500 of America, it starts in the 60s, right? And if you look at the African-American family,
00:27:31.200 the white family, the divorce rates, the breakdown of education in this country, the breakdown of the 0.76
00:27:36.680 economy, the beginning of the loss in productivity, everything is on a downhill descent after we rose
00:27:43.680 so high and we're at our peak.
00:27:45.700 Well, we're going to get back to that's MAGA, Make America Great Again. I have a previously scheduled
00:27:52.360 event that I'm going to have to punch out to. Five to seven o'clock tonight, Natalie Winters
00:27:58.280 and I will be back to take the deck in the con and to conclude. We're going to have more
00:28:04.000 commemoration. Then we've got a lot more stuff going on, but more commemoration then. Dave
00:28:09.100 Bratt is going to stand in for us. He's going to take the deck in the con. Patrick K. O'Donnell
00:28:13.060 is going to join us. Then later, you're going to have some discussion on your favorite topic
00:28:16.700 besides theology and that would be economics in the current state of America. I will be
00:28:23.780 back here from five to seven. I want to leave you, the theme to the day is next man up. This
00:28:30.040 is what, remember, with 10,000 casualties on day one of Normandy, somebody had to step up
00:28:36.640 to the plate. Those are those great enlisted men, great junior officers, non-commissioned
00:28:41.460 officers, all of it to make sure we went forward. It hasn't changed in our current war. I'm
00:28:46.640 going to leave you with my favorite clip from my favorite war movie, 12 o'clock high.
00:28:50.600 This is to lay out exactly what task and purpose is. I'll be back this afternoon at five o'clock.
00:28:55.240 I'll be back.
00:29:07.200 Trade-off! 0.98
00:29:27.540 Press.
00:29:37.200 There'll be a briefing for a practice mission at 1100 this morning.
00:29:42.200 That's right, practice.
00:29:45.200 I've been sent down here to take over what has come to be known as a hard luck group.
00:29:50.200 Well, I don't believe in hard luck, so we're going to find out what the trouble is.
00:29:55.200 Maybe part of it's your flying, so we're going back to fundamentals.
00:30:00.200 But I can tell you now one reason I think you've been having hard luck.
00:30:05.200 I saw it in your faces last night.
00:30:08.200 I can see it there now.
00:30:11.200 You've been looking at a lot of air lately.
00:30:14.200 You think you ought to have a rest.
00:30:17.200 In short, you're sorry for yourselves.
00:30:20.200 Now, I don't have a lot of patience with this what are we fighting for stuff.
00:30:23.200 We're in a war, a shooting war.
00:30:25.200 We've got to fight.
00:30:27.200 And some of us have got to die.
00:30:29.200 I'm not trying to tell you not to be afraid.
00:30:32.200 Fear is normal.
00:30:34.200 But stop worrying about it.
00:30:36.200 And about yourselves.
00:30:38.200 Stop making plans.
00:30:39.200 Forget about going home.
00:30:41.200 Consider yourselves already dead.
00:30:43.200 Once you accept that idea, it won't be so tough.
00:30:47.200 Now, if any man here can't buy that, if he rates himself as something special, with a special kind of hide to be saved, he'd better make up his mind about it right now.
00:31:01.200 Because I don't want him in this group.
00:31:04.200 I'll be in my office in five minutes.
00:31:07.200 You can see me there.
00:31:08.200 I'll take Colonel Batten for it any day.
00:31:13.200 I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money and our bank accounts.
00:31:24.200 First, think back to 9-11, shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
00:31:28.200 This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our movement across the Internet.
00:31:36.200 Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:31:50.200 In fact, some of the guests I've had on The War Room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:31:58.200 If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms, or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:32:08.200 I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
00:32:14.200 Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine, has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.
00:32:26.200 Watch Jim's warning video now before it's censored like I've been in the past.
00:32:32.200 Go to RickardsWarRoom.com. That's RickardsWarRoom.com now to see the video.
00:32:38.200 On a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of France.
00:32:44.200 The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.
00:32:56.200 At dawn on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.
00:33:06.200 Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.
00:33:16.200 The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
00:33:24.200 The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades, and the American Rangers began to climb.
00:33:34.200 They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up.
00:33:39.200 When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.
00:33:42.200 When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again.
00:33:47.200 They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.
00:33:51.200 Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe.
00:34:02.200 225 came here.
00:34:05.200 After two days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.
00:34:10.200 Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs, and before me are the men who put them there.
00:34:22.200 These are the men who took the cliffs.
00:34:35.200 These are the champions who helped free a continent, and these are the heroes who helped end a war.
00:34:42.200 Gentlemen, I look at you, and I think of the words of Stephen Spender's poem.
00:34:49.200 You are men who in your, quote, lives fought for life, and left the vivid air signed with your honor.
00:34:57.200 Honored to be back in the war room with Stephen K. Bannon, and great honor to bring in one of our great friends, Patrick K. O'Donnell.
00:35:10.200 And before we get there, Reagan's speech, just hugely inspirational, always lifting our souls up, lifting everything up to the heavens, to God, to America, to what made this country great in the first place.
00:35:25.200 The men who made this country great in the first place, calling special attention, men who climbed the cliff, put their hooks in the cliff, seized the cliff, seized the land.
00:35:35.200 And that's a metaphor for what Bannon et al. here at the war room are calling all of us to do.
00:35:42.200 Seize this land, take this land back for God, country, family, restore it, make America great again in all of the highest senses of the word, and to seize this continent and to end all the wars that are going on right now in the world we currently live in.
00:35:57.200 And no better person to give us a summary of World War II and the meaning of it for Americans than our special friend, Patrick K. O'Donnell, who's no stranger to this show.
00:36:09.900 Welcome, Patrick.
00:36:11.000 Why don't you lead us on a summary of the major remarks you want to make linking all these ideas together?
00:36:16.900 Dave, it's a pleasure and an honor to be here once again with you in the war room, the posse.
00:36:24.800 Past is present.
00:36:26.360 You know, many of the things that are going on today are inextricably linked to the past.
00:36:32.060 You know, I'm just honored by the fact that many of those boys in Pointe-de-Hoc were my closest friends.
00:36:37.360 And I started interviewing the boys of Pointe-de-Hoc and World War II Rangers and Special Operations Forces from World War II in 1992, and I've interviewed literally thousands of men that I've interviewed.
00:36:51.300 Only one Ranger officer is still alive from D-Day that I know, close friend, General John Rahn.
00:36:58.400 But it's those stories that are so powerful in that generation that did so much for us.
00:37:02.900 And, you know, I think what's important to note is in 1941, in 1940, the United States did not possess a single special operations forces or even the concept of special operations.
00:37:16.960 It would be in 1940 that Wild Bill Donovan, Colonel Donovan at the time, who was an ambassador to President Roosevelt, recognized the absolute need for special forces and special operations forces, which would have a crucial – would play an absolutely decisive and crucial role on D-Day, which I'll get to in a minute.
00:37:38.240 But he writes a letter to President Roosevelt that is compelling and powerful.
00:37:42.100 America needs guerrilla bands of bold and daring men organized to sew the dragon's teeth behind the lines, men calculatingly reckless with disciplined daring who are trained for aggressive action.
00:37:55.340 It will mean a return to our old tradition of the scouts, raiders, and rangers.
00:38:00.620 And that's part of the story that I tell in the book, The Unvanquished.
00:38:04.760 They had no template in 1941 and 1940, so they had to look back at our first modern war, which is the American Civil War, and they look back at the Jesse Scouts, Mosby's Rangers, and the Confederate Secret Service for a template on how to put these men together.
00:38:22.140 And they stumble and fall.
00:38:25.320 I mean, the bureaucracy of the Army doesn't want anything to do with special operations forces.
00:38:31.380 They create something called the special activities section or branch, which then morphs into the special operations branch within the coordinator of information or OSS, which then changes.
00:38:43.480 Even the president's son is with General Donovan or Colonel Donovan at the time, and he breaks off to be the executive officer of the 2nd Raider Battalion for the U.S. Marine Corps.
00:38:55.960 And then the rangers are formed in 1942 under the direction of then-Colonel Lucian Truscott.
00:39:04.780 And it's these rangers that will play a key role at D-Day.
00:39:09.800 Let me take you and the audience back in time, Dave, to June 6th.
00:39:15.980 Hey, Patrick, let me pull a bannon on you.
00:39:20.940 And you said past is present.
00:39:22.780 Before you make that transition to D-Day, you just said there was no special operations back at this point in history.
00:39:31.340 And just a quick question for you, Pat, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
00:39:34.920 There's a book by Gannon, I think, called National Security and the Double Government, which contrasts the Trumanites, the three-letter agencies, with us naive people who believe in, you know, Madisonian government, the separation of powers.
00:39:50.140 Now the debate is the three-letter agencies and special operations folks have taken over the government.
00:39:55.900 Any short commentary there before you go on to D-Day?
00:40:01.660 Well, I mean, the United States has had a very rich history of irregular warfare since the beginning of our country, even prior to it, in the 1600s.
00:40:10.620 The term ranger was there.
00:40:12.860 I mean, America had, you know, basically pioneered a new form of warfare.
00:40:18.500 And it's part of our tradition.
00:40:21.280 It's how we defeated the British in the Revolutionary War.
00:40:26.160 You know, the question you have is a good one.
00:40:29.500 I mean, unfortunately, some of this legacy does translate into, you know, what we have today, which is unfortunately an encroachment in some cases of the Constitution and what the founders envisioned.
00:40:44.220 And, you know, I mean, it's the American Revolution in our founding, which is so important today.
00:40:50.340 It's about freedom and liberty.
00:40:51.880 Yeah.
00:40:52.160 But it's also about the dispersion of power, which is incredibly important.
00:40:58.620 But I would add that, you know, many operators today are very much, you know, follow the Constitution and are true patriots.
00:41:07.220 You know, this this is a but on D-Day, this is a situation where America needed these brave men and they were they play a very, very critical role, Dave, because, you know, let's go back in time to June 6, 1944, where, you know, these men are disembarking from the motherships that they have that are out in the English Channel.
00:41:33.380 Well, it's roughly 6 a.m. in the morning and the seas are stormy.
00:41:38.640 They're climbing down these rope ladders.
00:41:41.420 I mean, it's a perilous climb.
00:41:42.640 They've got to go about 30 feet down into the landing craft.
00:41:45.540 If you slip and fall on these wet ropes, you could literally die by, you know, just breaking your neck.
00:41:51.640 They get into the landing craft and they make their way towards they make their way towards Point de Hoc.
00:42:00.980 And why it's important is this is a rocky peninsula that is basically between Omaha and Utah Beach in a top, you know, Point de Hoc are six big guns.
00:42:14.860 At least they think they're there in the casements.
00:42:17.820 And the Rangers are broken down into three task forces and things go wrong immediately at the beginning.
00:42:27.480 The major force, which is Point Group A, Ranger Force A, which is under the command of Colonel Rudder, is is is suddenly is going in the wrong direction to a place called Point de la Poise,
00:42:42.400 which is on the extreme on the extreme flank of Omaha Beach.
00:42:48.040 And this is a very fortuitous mistake, because what happens is they're put off course and they're delayed by about 40 minutes at the time that the Rangers are supposed to hit the cliffs.
00:43:00.400 A massive aerial bombardment from hundreds of bombers plaster Point de Hoc and they would have been they would as the Rangers were getting off in on the prescribed schedule,
00:43:12.620 they would have been killed by the bombs of these bombers, our own men are by the of our own bombs.
00:43:18.180 But they're delayed. And then they redirect because the rudder understands that they're they're going in the wrong direction.
00:43:25.160 They go they get back on course and they're about 40 minutes behind schedule and they start to climb.
00:43:32.260 They get off the landing craft and it's it's like, you know, saving Private Ryan.
00:43:37.260 There's one scene where they jump off the craft and they literally go underwater under their heads.
00:43:42.660 You know, the water goes over their helmets because the bombers had created massive shell holes in the front of the point.
00:43:51.280 And they go underwater, many of these guys, and then they start to scale the cliff and they're peppered by MG 42 machine guns.
00:44:00.940 These things can put out about twelve hundred to fifteen hundred rounds.
00:44:05.700 Many of them are hit in the craft. It's it's a, you know, bloodbath.
00:44:10.020 And they're being, you know, grenades are being thrown down upon them.
00:44:13.780 And then the side of the cliff, the Germans have actually put IEDs or improvised explosive devices,
00:44:20.080 which are shell that are one hundred fifty five millimeter rounds of artillery that are suspended that can be detonated remotely.
00:44:27.580 And so they have to go through this entire gauntlet to get to the top.
00:44:32.440 And my main character in the book I wrote, Dog Company, which captures this story, is Leonard Lamelle.
00:44:39.980 He was one of my closest friends. And he is he is hit on the side by a machine gun bullet as he's climbing.
00:44:47.640 And this guy just shrugs it off and keeps pushing.
00:44:51.440 Many of his men in Dog Company aren't even able to make it to the cliff.
00:44:55.180 One landing craft literally capsizes by an artillery shell that lands near it and they make their way to the top.
00:45:02.700 And what they see on top of Point de Hoc, Dave, is a maze of bunkers and tunnels and trenches.
00:45:14.040 And the Germans are dug in.
00:45:15.940 They have a anti-aircraft gun that is firing, you know, 20 millimeter shells directly at these rangers.
00:45:22.300 They're hit by machine gun fire, but they still press on and they get up to the top and the casements themselves are empty because they have a telephone poles that are their dummy guns that are put there because the Germans knew that the allies would plaster Point de Hoc with, you know, the greatest amount of ordnance.
00:45:44.560 It would be, you know, thousands of bombers would hit the point.
00:45:47.860 There was, you know, naval artillery that shelled it, but it would be one man or two men, really, that would take out D-Day's toughest objective.
00:45:58.740 They get to the top and then they start to fight through this maze of bunkers.
00:46:04.180 And Len LaMelle is leading with this small group of men, including Jack Kuhn, and they find a set of tire tracks, which they think may have been, you know, the guns themselves that had been moved.
00:46:17.100 And they follow these tracks for about 500 or 600 yards, and they come upon the guns, which are in an apple orchard that are under nets.
00:46:26.700 Patrick K. O'Donnell, let me hold you right there and we'll finish the rest of the story after 30 seconds to one minute break.
00:46:36.340 Glad to have you on the war room.
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00:48:03.400 Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:48:09.060 Great to be with you all this morning in the War Room.
00:48:11.420 Sitting in for Stephen K. Bannon, and one of our favorites is with us.
00:48:16.600 You've been hearing from him.
00:48:18.340 He's got much more to teach us.
00:48:20.500 And with that, I'll turn you all back to Patrick K. O'Donnell, one of the foremost combat historians in our country, a great patriot, and someone who can teach us about how we can restore America by going back to what our heroes at World War II have taught us.
00:48:39.380 And so with that, Patrick, take us back to your story.
00:48:44.700 We left off with Len Lamell and Jack Kuhn, this small group of rangers following a set of tire tracks.
00:48:53.460 And they make their way about 500 yards to an apple orchard, and they find five of the guns under a canopy of nets.
00:49:05.240 Nearby is a group of artillerymen that are manning those guns, and they're at attention.
00:49:11.640 But they're ready to go and ready to fire.
00:49:15.080 And Lamell, you know, without orders of any kind, does – he accomplishes the emission of all of those bombers, thousands of bombers that try to plaster Moindach, the Navy bombardment.
00:49:30.080 One man will change the course of history by disabling the guns.
00:49:35.360 They have something called a thermite grenade, and this is a grenade that produces hot molten metal, you know, almost 2,000 degrees.
00:49:44.600 And he places the grenades on the gears and working systems of the guns.
00:49:49.080 And it doesn't make noise, but it melts the gears and renders them inoperable.
00:49:53.260 And, you know, this is where I think the great story here is how personal agency, how a single person can change the outcome potentially of an entire evasion.
00:50:08.160 I mean, this is the history of – the books that I've written are all about a small group of men or women that can change history by their actions or their agency.
00:50:19.620 And this is a case with Lamell.
00:50:23.100 And he is – he's able to disable the guns.
00:50:26.340 Another group of rangers take out the six-gun.
00:50:30.600 But this is the beginning of their war on top of Pointe du Hoc.
00:50:37.380 There are still hundreds of Germans in these bunkers and tunnels that they are, you know, desperately fighting the rangers to try to repel them from the cliff. 1.00
00:50:46.720 And they also have to set up their secondary objective, which is to cut the coastal road atop Pointe du Hoc, which links Omaha and Utah Beach.
00:50:57.740 This is crucial because if that road is accessible, the Germans can ferry reinforcements to either beach. 0.96
00:51:04.860 So they set up in sort of an L-shaped set of foxholes atop Pointe du Hoc.
00:51:09.960 And they wait.
00:51:13.880 And in true German fashion, Germans attack and counterattack. 0.76
00:51:18.480 Hundreds of men are hitting Dog Company and the men of Lamell's platoon, what's left of it, as well as E and F companies, which are part of this assault force.
00:51:30.240 There's something else that's really important about this operation that is absolutely crucial, and it has to do with a mistake because the 5th Ranger Battalion was to follow on along with A and B Company, the 2nd Ranger Battalion.
00:51:47.420 Once the men in Lamell's group, these three companies, the assault force, the 225 that President Reagan talked about, captured the point.
00:51:57.520 What happens, though, is as they scale the cliffs and secure the top, they send a radio message to the secondary force, the 5th Ranger Battalion.
00:52:06.240 It's never received, Dave.
00:52:09.260 It's a mystery to this day why.
00:52:12.300 And what happens is instead of reinforcing Lamell and the other Rangers in the 225, they proceed to their secondary objective, which is Omaha Beach.
00:52:23.780 And this is an amazing moment because at roughly 6.45 a.m., Omaha Beach is a charnel house.
00:52:32.780 It is a bloodbath.
00:52:34.640 There's elements of a German division there that are dug in, and they are repelling the 1st Division, the 29th Division.
00:52:43.820 And there's one company of rangers at Pointe de la Proce, but the invasion at Omaha Beach is going nowhere, and there's actually talk about taking the men off the beach and coming back to the boats.
00:52:59.100 It's at this point in time that, you know, at the exact point in time in history and inflection point that the 5th Ranger Battalion and A&B Company are landing, and they will change the course of the war.
00:53:12.900 The A&B Company, it's hit on Omaha Dog Green.
00:53:18.740 This is the scene from Saving Private Ryan where it's a bloodbath.
00:53:23.120 Ray Ulm, one of the men that I interviewed, a good friend from Chicago, said that the water was dark red because there were so many casualties and bodies floating around.
00:53:33.500 It's at this point, Max Schneider, the commander of the 5th Ranger Battalion, orders the landing craft to go a little bit over to the left to Dog White Beach, and here they change the course of history.
00:53:45.680 A ranger battalion is at exactly the right time and place to alter the invasion and Omaha Beach, and they lead the breakout.
00:53:55.520 And this is an extraordinary, you know, an extraordinary moment in time.
00:54:02.500 Hey, Patrick, let me ask you on that.
00:54:05.620 You know, past is present.
00:54:08.120 Individuals can change history by their own actions.
00:54:12.940 How do you see that at play?
00:54:14.620 I'm going to hold you over the break after 11 as well.
00:54:17.840 But I just want to give people some hope right now how their own individual actions in the military or otherwise can change history.
00:54:25.220 What lessons have you gleaned from all of your writing, all your work?
00:54:29.480 And if you want to throw in how the hand of God is also at work in these individuals, giving them hope and courage, light it up for us a little bit there.
00:54:38.300 And then I'll take you through the break and we'll start up again.
00:54:41.320 Our history as a nation is replete.
00:54:45.520 Our history as a nation is replete with individuals that change the course of history, small groups of individuals.
00:54:54.240 The American Revolution is a classic example of that.
00:54:57.440 In The Indispensables, for instance, Dave, this is the story about the Marblehead Regiment during the American Revolution.
00:55:05.360 And all seemed to be lost at the Battle of Long Island.
00:55:09.580 But a small group of men from Marblehead have the impossible task of saving an army of 10,000 men.
00:55:20.220 And it's in the summer of 1776 where the British have overwhelmed most of our defenses. 0.91
00:55:31.660 And Washington is determined to somehow save the army.
00:55:35.440 And they gather up all the boats that they can.
00:55:38.860 And it's an American Dunkirk.
00:55:41.420 And this is a situation where it's quite extraordinary that, you know, they have to somehow cross a mile of river across the East River in some manner and forward way with the British fleet staring down upon them.
00:55:57.080 And they're able to do it.
00:55:58.520 I'm going to hold you right there, Patrick.
00:55:59.940 We're going to come back for that clue.
00:56:02.260 We're going to come back for that.
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