June 6: the history they never taught you.

2 stories from the archive happened on this date—each drawn from published sources before it was written.

The Wrong Map at Omaha

The Rangers who scaled the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc did everything right—except the guns they came to destroy weren't there.

Sainte-Mère-Église: How Lost Paratroopers Freed the First Town on D-Day

A stick of paratroopers landed in what felt like the wrong country and stumbled onto one of D-Day's most critical objectives entirely by accident.

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