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Franklin D. Roosevelt Delivers D-Day Prayer (3:37)

In a national radio broadcast on June 6, 1944, as 160,000 Allied troops land in Normandy in an attempt to liberate France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks America to join him in a prayer.

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