(Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Capital-Star is reprinting the timeless work of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle. Over the next three days, we’ll be running a selection of Pyle’s columns from the Normandy beaches, in tribute to this turning point in history, and the men and women who served.) […]
In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you.
