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June 6, 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlordhttp://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=presidential&month=10272958&day=10272971 http://tinyurl.com/oc2uq On 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 Operation Overlord. Back in America, President Franklin Roosevelt waited for word of the invasion’s success. By the first week of June 1944, Nazi Germany controlled most of Western Europe. Allied forces, numbering 156,000, were poised to travel by ship or plane over the English Channel to attack the German army dug in at Normandy,...