Why George Marshall Secretly Chose Omar Bradley to Command the D-Day Invasion
ABOARD THE USS AUGUSTA, English Channel — In the gray, heaving darkness of the early hours of June 6, 1944, a heavy-set man in a wrinkled uniform stood alone at the rail of the USS Augusta, sleepless, staring into a blackness filled with thousands of ships carrying more than 150,000 men toward the coast of … Read more