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NewsJune 6, 2014

The commanders at the Royal Air Force base in Andover, in the south of England, gathered for a briefing on the evening of June 5, 1944. They heard the plan: At first light the next day, troops would land on the beaches at Normandy.

Gen. Seth J. McKee, right, commander of the North American Air Defense Command, presented a souvenir to President Richard M. Nixon of the chief executive's visit to NORAD headquarters underground complex in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1971. McKee grew up in Southeast Missouri and graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1934.
Gen. Seth J. McKee, right, commander of the North American Air Defense Command, presented a souvenir to President Richard M. Nixon of the chief executive's visit to NORAD headquarters underground complex in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1971. McKee grew up in Southeast Missouri and graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1934.

The commanders at the Royal Air Force base in Andover, in the south of England, gathered for a briefing on the evening of June 5, 1944. They heard the plan: At first light the next day, troops would land on the beaches at Normandy.

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