Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 4/7' (June 4, 1944, at 9:20)

(Sunday, June 4, 1944, 6:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/12:00 a.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 2 days before the Normandy landings, part of Operation Overlord on the Western Front of World War II) — Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower decided to postpone the D-Day invasion for at least one day, hoping for better weather on June 6. The Allied Expeditionary Force convoys, bound for Normandy, are called back to port.

The poor weather has also encourage the German defenders in occupied France. Gen. Erwin Rommel, commanding Army Group B, decides to go to Germany for his wife’s birthday on June 6 and to meet with Hitler. Other German commanders in the Normandy area are at a training exercise in Brittany.

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