Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 4/7' (June 2, 1944, at 2:56)
(Friday, June 2, 1944, morning; 4 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — A convoy out of Hiltonbury camp in Hampshire, England, and heading for the south coast encounters a herd of cows. Convoys like this are on the move throughout the day.
Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 3/7' (June 1, 1944, at 6:38)
(Thursday June 1, 1944; 5 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — British Admiral Bertram Ramsay writes home to his wife about the impending invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Continue reading British Admiral Bertram Ramsay writes home 70 years ago today (June 1 1944)
Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 3/7' (May 31, 1944, at 3:29)
(Wednesday, May 31, 1944, 10:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/4:00 a.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 6 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — A German soldier stationed in Nantes, France, writes a letter home as the Allies prepare for D-Day.
Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 2/7' (May 30, 1944, at 12:13)
(Tuesday, May 30, 1944, 9:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/3:00 a.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 7 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — The American 82nd Airborne have reached their final staging post at Cottesmore airfield in the English Midlands by today for the upcoming invasion of Europe. Continue reading American 82nd Airborne have reached final staging post 70 years ago this hour (May 30 1944)
Video: 'Ten Days to D-Day 1/7' (May 29, 1944, at 10:01)
(Monday, May 29, 1944, 8:00 a.m. British Double Summer Time (BDST)/2:00 a.m. Eastern War Time(EWT); 8 days before the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in charge of the D-Day landings, perfects his golf swing, chain smokes and thinks about his family back home while at his headquarters at his headquarters near the south coast of England. Continue reading Eisenhower deals with strain of planning D-Day 70 years ago this hour (May 29 1944)
(Monday, May 8, 1944) — The first eye bank was founded today at New York Hospital in New York City by two physicians, Dr. Townley Paton and Dr. John MacLean.
(Saturday, May 6, 1944) — Kathleen Kennedy, the 24-year-old fourth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and a younger sister of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, today married William “Billy” Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, in a civil ceremony at the Caxton Hall Registry Office in Westminster, London, England.
Her eldest brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., whom she had grown close to during the last year of his life, was the only member of the Kennedy family to attend the ceremony.
Video: 'Footage - Gandhi - 1944 May 6, #01'
(Saturday May 6, 1944) — Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was unconditionally released by British authorities today “wholly on medical grounds” from a prison at Toona, India, after 21 months of internment for advocating only passive resistance to the Japanese. Doctors prescribed rest for his blood infection.
Video: 'Gaslight' (trailer)
(Thursday, May 4, 1944) — Gaslight, a mystery-thriller film about a newlywed who fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion, opened today at the Capitol in New York City.
Directed by George Cukor, the film starred Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury.
Video: 'Going My Way' (trailer)
(Wednesday, May 3, 1944) — Going My Way, a musical comedy-drama film about a young priest who revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest, premiered tonight at the Paramount in New York City.
Directed by Leo McCarey, the film starred Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald and Risë Stevens.
