Churchill warns of heavy casualties, Ike visits paratroopers 70 years ago this hour (June 5 1944)


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(Monday, June 5, 1944, 9:30 p.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/3:30 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 1 day before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — In London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warns his wife that 20,000 men could be killed by the morning while Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower visits paratroopers in southern England preparing to depart for France.


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