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The June 6, 1944, order of the day was issued by Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Allied forces on the eve of D-Day, the first day of the invasion of Normandy. The message was intended to impress upon the troops the importance of their mission which Eisenhower called a "Great Crusade".
On June 6, 2013, The Eisenhower Memorial Commission premiered the first of six videos which it said would be part of the e-memorial. The new video focused on D-Day. [94] The film, which put the viewer in the role of Eisenhower as he made critical decisions regarding the Normandy landings, used rarely-seen D-Day footage. [97]
Strobel (wearing number 23 placard) and the members of Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division listening to General Dwight D. Eisenhower the night before D-Day. Wallace C. Strobel (June 5, 1922 – August 27, 1999) was a United States Army officer who was the subject of a famous photograph during World War II.
By Eloise Lee On this day 68 years ago, nearly 3 million Allied troops readied themselves for one of the greatest military operations of world history. D-Day. And the push that lead to Hitler's ...
55 D-Day quotes honoring one of the most ... by General Dwight Eisenhower of the United ... remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 ...
By the end of June 6, 1944, 156,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy. 4,414 Allied troops, including 2,501 Americans were killed, however, and more than 5,000 wounded in the ...
The "People of Western Europe" speech was made by Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the run-up to the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Addressed to the people of occupied Europe it informed them of the start of the invasion and advised them on the actions Eisenhower wanted them to take.
A new statue of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Allied Forces Commander during World War II, was dedicated in the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, France, on June 3 as part of activities held to mark ...