D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers who were key to success
CBSN
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.
"It's one of those images that just causes you to pause," said James Ginther, the archivist of the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. "There's clearly something going on. There's conversation. but we don't know what it is, and it invites us in."
What makes this picture so iconic (a cutout of the famous photo has even been turned into a selfie station at the library) is that it perfectly captures all that was at stake on D-Day – the burden of command, and the lives in the balance.
