Great Ledes: “In the gray light of a summer dawn. . .

The New York Times of June 6, 1944:

ALLIED ARMIES LAND IN FRANCE;
GREAT INVASION IS UNDER WAY

By Raymond Daniell

In the gray light of a summer dawn, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower threw his great Anglo-American force into action today for the liberation of the Continent.

 

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