CNN Early Start With John Berman and Christine Romans June 6, 2014 09:27:00
Two years before he commanded armies, eisenhower's troops sliced through north africa. three times before d-day, our gis stormed the beaches at sicily, salerno, anzio. divisions like the fighting 36th brawled their way through italy, fighting through the mud for months, marching through towns, past waving children before opening the gates to rome. as the dog faces marched to victory in europe, the devil dogs, the marines clawed their way from island to island in the pacific in some of the war's fiercest fighting. and back home, an army of women, including my grandmother, rolled up their sleeve...