He is known for his efforts to heal the nation post-Watergate and his controversial pardon of Nixon. Nixon served as Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower before becoming the 37th President in ...
Ingutti, a Navy veteran, served during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. “We were there the morning of the invasion at 6 in the morning. I was in the Navy and we had to rush everybody in there,” he ...
approaching Omaha Beach at Normandy on D-Day. According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the ship was struck by enemy mortars and shells before it hit a mine, igniting the fuel in the ...
Eisenhower was finally persuaded that the Mediterranean option was justified by the medium-term benefits of a successful operation - control of the Mediterranean and the resources of French North ...