KPR Presents: The 75th Anniversary of D-Day

By Kaye McIntyre

Published June 2, 2019 at 5:00 AM CDT

Photo courtesy of the National World War II Museum

Interview with Dr. Lou DiMarco

Week of June 2, 2019: 75 years ago this week, 150,000 Allied troops stormed the German-occupied beaches of Normandy, France. Military historians Dr. Adrian Lewis of the University of Kansas and Dr. Lou DiMarco of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth talk about what went wrong and what went right on June 6th, 1944, and the implications of D-Day for World War II.

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition Saturday, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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