On D-Day, June 6, 1944, millions of Americans gathered around their radios, glued to the announcers’ updates of the Allied invasion of Normandy. My father was also gathered with an excited group around a radio—a secret one, at Oflag 64, a POW camp in the rural town of Szubin, in German-occupied Poland.

Coming soon….4th of Julys: 1943 and 1973