Eighty years on, whether you call it the “Longest Day” or the “Mighty Endeavor,” D-Day on June 6, 1944, remains perhaps the most significant day for Western civilization in the 20th century. As outlined by a February 1944 directive from the Allied Combined Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
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