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  • LCVP landing craft put troops ashore on Omaha Beach on D-Day
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    FDR's D-Day Prayer

    On June 6, 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt's usual "fireside chat" would be replaced with a joint prayer with the American people. 

  • M-1 helmet and liner of Captain Leonard Schroeder, Jr.
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    The First Man on the Beaches of Normandy

    US Army Captain Leonard T. Schroeder Jr. was the first man down the ramp and straight into waist-deep water at Utah Beach. As he trudged toward the shoreline, his M-1 helmet stayed firmly affixed to his head as he tried to avoid enemy fire.

  • Walt Ehlers with his mother Marie and brother Roland.
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    A Bond Broken Only by Death

    On June 6, 1944, two brothers from Kansas landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. They promised to meet on the beach after the fighting was done—a promise that would remain unfulfilled.

  • Troops and crewmen aboard a Coast Guard manned LCVP as it approaches a Normandy beach
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    ‘At Last We Have Come to D-Day’

    In the June 7, 1944, edition of her newspaper column My Day, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reflected on the news of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the long path ahead to victory in Europe.

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