Peggy Noonan: A Day at the Beach

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Published on 07/5/2008

It was May 1944, and 22-year-old John Whitehead of Montclair, N.J., an ensign on the USS Thomas Jefferson, was placed in charge of five of the landing craft for the invasion of Europe.