It is Tuesday, June 6, 1944.

Norman Brown, a B-17 radio operator, is writing in his diary:

“Tuesday, 6th.

This is it.

D-day.

We were in the first wave of heavies [B-17s] over the coast.

It was the greatest sight a person could see.

And if I lived to be a thousand, I could never forget it.

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