
Editor's note: This story first ran in The World-Herald in 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. * * * In the anxious final days before his giant gamble at Normandy, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took great comfort in spending time with his troops. On the eve of D-Day, Eisenhower visited the fellows at the 101st Airborne Division. Their job would be to parachute behind enemy lines in the dark of night. In small groups, they would seize roads, bridges and waterways so German forces couldn’t reinforce the soldiers...