General Dwight D Eisenhower issued this message to his soldiers, sailors and airmen on 06-June-1944, D-Day. Click on the image to see a larger version. Thank Heaven "this great and noble undertaking" was a success.
Since I first posted this item in 2011, many World War II veterans have died. We lose about 130 each day. Of 16 million American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, there were about 120,000 still alive in 2023. (http://www.nationalww2museum.org/honor/wwii-veterans-statistics.html)
The image is from Today's Document (http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/) at the National Archives.
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