Tag: normandy beaches
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Vince Bzdek: ‘The biggest undertaking by mankind in the history of the world’
Shortly after the D-Day invasion started 80 years ago this week, Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower — walking the Normandy beaches with his son 2nd Lt. John Eisenhower — said this: “If I didn’t have air supremacy, I wouldn’t be here.” That statement somewhat contradicts the single “Private Ryan” image most people hold in their heads of…