At the Eisenhower Presidential Library some 25 World War II veterans paraded to the foot of the statue of Kansas favorite son, the man who developed the plans for the invasion of Europe and led it.
The courage of around 160,000 Allied troops was displayed during the D-Day invasion on June 6th, 1944, as they overtook the heavily-fortified French coastline occupied by Nazi Germany.
By the summer of 1944, the goose-stepping boot of Nazi Germany was squarely secured on the necks of the capitulating Western European nations. The Nazi war machine had rolled across