The woman who crashed D-Day | Holy Cow! History

The woman who crashed D-Day | Holy Cow! History

Martha Gellhorn worked alongside medics recovering wounded GIs and ferrying them back across the English Channel. Once in port, she jumped ship and wrote what she had seen as the only woman journalist to land at Normandy on June 6.

Holy Cow! History: The woman who crashed D-Day

Dwight Eisenhower had reached his decision. And when Ike put his foot down, that was the end of things. After all, as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, personally responsible for planning the largest military invasion in human history, his…