Michigan Minute

Eisenhower's D-Day Order To Saginaw Lt. | June 6


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1944: D-Day. General Eisenhower famously ordered "Full victory – nothing else" to the 101st Airborne Division, captured in an iconic photograph. He conversed with Lieutenant Wallace Strobel, a native of Saginaw, Michigan, mentioning his fondness for the state's fishing. Strobel survived the war, living until 1999, passing away a day after his 22nd birthday and fifty-five years after D-Day.
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