BBC signals D-Day orders to French Resistance 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 5 1944)


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(Monday, June 5, 1944, 7:00 p.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/1:00 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 1 day before the Normandy landings, part of Operation Overlord on the Western Front of World War II) — The French Resistance receives D-Day orders via coded messages from the British Broadcasting Corporation, better known as the BBC.