On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. A Wednesday column in The Wall Street Journal recalled that President Franklin Roosevelt announced D-Day to the nation with a prayer.
It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his radio broadcast to an anxious nation. Earlier that day, he had held a press ...
Never had so many Americans prayed together, led neither by a priest nor pastor, but by the president of the United States. Eighty-years ago tonight, as American troops and soldiers of the Allied ...
On the night of June 6, 1944, President Roosevelt went on national radio to address the nation for the first time about the Normandy invasion.June 6, 2019 © 2026 ...