The Longest Day/Awesome Music

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  • The first eight bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
    • The first 4 notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony were appropriated by the Allies as a Leitmotif throughout the war. It matched the Morse code signal for "V", for Victory.
  • Bagpipes, just... bagpipes.
  • The main march. The vocal version is here.
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