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Commander
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
l aunches Operat ion Overl ord
O n this day in 1944, now known as
D-Day, future President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, then supreme commander
of Allied Expeditionary Forces in World
War II gives the go-ahead for a massive
invasion of Europe called O peration
O verlord. Back in America, President
Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of
the invasion?s success.
By the first week of June 1944, N azi
Germany controlled most of Western
Europe. Allied forces, numbering
156,000, were poised to travel by ship
or plane over the English Channel to