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Eisenhower made D-Day plans at the rural pub

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D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers' key to success

General Dwight Eisenhower met with some of the 13,000 paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines in occupied France in June 1944. Eisenhower warned against the plan, but made a decision to move forward anyway. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on how the head of Allied airborne operations warned against it.

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The rural pub where Eisenhower and Patton made D-Day plans

Plans for the Normandy landings were made by senior US commanders in a back room of a Cheshire pub.

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