More than 150,000 U.S. and Allied troops were huddled inside rain-soaked camps scattered throughout southeast England on June 6, 1944, when Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s voice suddenly crackled over the radio: “You are about to embark on the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
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Eighty years ago today, on D-Day, the United States and its allies assembled one of the greatest armadas in history to liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day.President Biden will highlight the impact of U.S. veterans and allies from the D-Day invasion of 80 years ago and could meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the remembrance in France this week, the White House said Tuesday.
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