LETTER FROM MHQ BIG DAY, BIG MEN
eneral Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, was visibly anxious the night of June 5, 1944. He hadn’t been sleeping well. Working 20- hour days to prepare for Operation Overlord—the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France—he’d been staying awake by drinking too much coffee and smoking too many cigarettes (up to four
