It was 75 years ago when thousands of allied paratroopers took to the air, boarded planes, and dropped behind enemy lines. One of the last surviving veterans of that mission talks to NPR about D-Day, and how it shifted the momentum of World War II on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.
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