 Bauer was the first announcer in the rotation, so he was the first broadcaster to tell the Germans—in tolkienesque German—that "Der Sturm aus dem Westen hat begonnen" (The storm from the West has begun).4 The D-Day invasion was the largest land, sea and air invasion in the history of the world, and the Allied victory broke the back of the Nazi regime.Bauer rose steadily through the ranks of the VOA.He was chief of the Austrian Service and name commentator for the VOA from 1945–49; chief of the VOA North European Branch in 1949; and chief of the VOA Field Services Division from 1952-1955.