Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dimes in front of the White House collage

Why Did People Send Truck Loads of Dimes to the White House?

Fun Fact: it is how the March of Dimes foundation started.
Digitally restored, vintage black-and-white World War II photo of American troops wading ashore on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. The photo is taken from the perspective of the photographer standing in a landing craft behind the soldiers who are leaving the lander and heading through the surf toward the beach.

CBS Radio’s June 6, 1944 Broadcasts Offer a Fascinating Perspective on D-Day

Relive what radio listeners on the home front were hearing from early June 6 to early June 7, 1944, as news of the D-Day invasion began coming in.