Fruit pickers in California - or Florida - take time out to learn of the big news - Invasion of Normandy, France - June 6, 1944

News reaches the farms

German bomber on mine-laying mission makes an unscheduled "landing" in the garden of an English suburban villa in Clacton, Essex, April, 1940.  Neither the house nor the bomber seem to have benefitted from the experience ... JR.

And in such a nice area, too !

Mom reads about the Invasion - of Normandy, France - Dad plots it on the map... Even the children try to keep up with the news. (June 6, 1944).