Jaws dropped last week as LIFE readers opened their magazines, on the newsstands only three days after Dday. On the second and third pages of the lead invasion article appeared a detailed, double-page panoramic drawing showing great Allied fleets of planes and ships hurtling from England toward a section of the French coast which would have been easily recognizable even without the names identifying its chief cities: LE HAVRE, CAEN, CHERBOURG. Explanation of this astonishing bull's-eye: LIFE'S editors, knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike,...
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