Stressful Anticipation
`A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshippers to ‘Come in and pray for Allied victory’ in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6th June 1944. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Keeping the enemy in the dark was crucial to Allied success in WWII, and American media outlets had very little new information for mothers and fathers on their son’s whereabouts after landing in France. All Americans could do is listen to German media broadcasts to try and get a sense of the carnage, and boy their heads in prayer.