Morley piper biography wwii propaganda

On this day 70 years ago, people huddled around their radios to hear radio broadcasts like this one on the BBC:

Under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.

The invasion of Normandy signaled the end of World War II.

Right now, a special exhibition about D-Day is on display at an under-the-radar archive in Natick called the Museum Of World War II. It houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of documents and artifacts about the war.

From outside, the museum is nondescript, almost bunker-like.

There’s no sign, but American flags — and this week a French one — flank the entrance.

Inside there are metal detectors to make sure visitors who come here, by appointment only, don’t lift items from the massive collection assembled by Kenneth Rendell.

Rendell, the museum's owner, sh