In the June 1994 issue, we covered the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy from varied and often lesser-known points of view: historian Stephen E. Ambrose set the stage; we paid tribute to the unsung Coast Guardsmen, the real life savers at Normandy; in an interview, venerable newsman Walter Cronkite recalled watching the invasion unfold from a B-17; and salty tank landing craft skipper H. R. Cluster offered a vivid, first-hand account that won him Naval History ’s Author of the Year award. It simply does not seem as though ten years have passed since we were able to crowd so much good material into 64 pages.
