This episode recounts the pivotal moment in World War II when the fall of Rome on June 4, 1944, was publicly celebrated by FDR in a fireside chat, while secretly Allied forces were already en route to launch the D-Day invasion of Normandy—a dual turning point that marked the beginning of
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