Read a few letters written by American soldiers in Europe after D-Day. ...Yesterday I had to visit all the units again, to get statements for my report. The regiment is in contact with the enemy ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that ...

but he did not take part in D-Day. His unit arrived in France weeks later. Steve Weatherbe, Victoria, B.C. National Post and Financial Post welcome letters to the editor (200 words or fewer).

A partly dramatised account of the lives of four Allied servicemen ahead of DDay the programme told their story through their final letters home before the assault ...