Eisenhower: ‘OK. Let’s go’ 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 5 1944)


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(Monday, June 5, 1944, 4:15 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/10:15 p.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 1 day before the Normandy landings, part of Operation Overlord on the Western Front of World War II) — Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower says, “OK. Let’s go,” as commanders attend their final D-Day weather briefing early this morning in southern England.


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