D-Day

<p>The famous journalist was arrested for stowing away on a hospital ship to cover the action on Normandy, writing a more compelling article than did her husband, Ernest Hemingway.</p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The G.I.’s were far more numerous than any army that ever occupied Britain; none left so little visible trace, none so touching a legacy</span> </p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="pullquote even">To this day nobody will take responsibility for the orphan dead of the 741st Tank Battalion.</span></span></p>

<p>Only those of us who were there know what Ike was really saying when the famous photograph was taken.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there.</span></p>

<p>Reminiscences of World War II’s European Theater add up to considerably more than a bunch of good war stories.</p>

<p><span class="deck">World War II is so difficult to get right on the screen. Here are some of the movies that do it best.</span></p>

<p>Eisenhower's call to proceed with D-Day was anything but inevitable.</p>

<p>Ike’s son, historian John Eisenhower, recalls attending meetings with the British wartime leader and reflects on his character and accomplishments.</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/content/april-1969">April 1969 issue</a> was typical of classic issues of <em>American Heritage</em>, with dramatic and substantive essays on George Washington, Ike and Patton, the Transcontinental Railroad, the "ship that wouldn't die," and many other fascinating subjects from our nation's past</p>

<p>Seventy-five years ago this June, the celebrated writer for <em>The New Yorker</em> was one of the first journalists to witness the carnage on Omaha Beach.</p>

<p>Authentic brass “crickets” issued to American paratroopers on D-Day are now quite rare. A worldwide search recently “unearthed a lost piece of sound history.”</p>

<p>J.D. Salinger carried a draft of his subsequently classic novel with him when he landed on the beach at Normandy.</p>

<p>The recent discovery of the hull of the battleship <em>Nevada</em> recalls her dramatic action at Pearl Harbor and ultimate revenge on D-Day as the first ship to fire on the Nazis.</p>