Clarence White was an American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. He is best known as a member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels and the rock band the Byrds, as well as for being a pioneer of the musical genre of country rock during the late 1960s. White also worked extensively as a session musician, appearing on recordings by the Everly Brothers, Joe Cocker, Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, the Monkees, Randy Newman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt, Arlo Guthrie, and Jackson Browne among others.

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1944World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.^[†]

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings. A 1,200-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving more than 5,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August.

Headlines from June 7, 1944

" Let Our Hearts Be Stout"; A Prayer by the President of the United States

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ALL LANDINGS WIN; Our Men Are Reported in Caen and at Points on Cherbourg Peninsula BIG AIR ARMADA AIDS 10,000 Tons of Bombs Clear the Way -- Poor Weather a Worry ALL LANDINGS WIN; SEA WALL BROKEN ALL LANDINGS WIN; SEA WALL BROKEN

COUNTRY IN PRAYER; President on Radio Leads in Petition He Framed for Allied Cause LIBERTY BELL RINGS Lexington and Boston's Old North Church Hold Services PRESIDENT LEADS COUNTRY IN PRAYER

LANDING PUTS END TO 4-YEAR HIATUS; Fiery Renewal of Battle for France -- Britain Recalls Grimness of Dunkerque LANDING PUTS END TO 4-YEAR HIATUS

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