Drafter of WW II D-Day Plans Recounts Her Experience, Part 1

June 6th, 2013

Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of France during World War II.

Helen Kogel Denton, originally from South Dakota, was one of the thousands of women who joined the Women’s Army Corps (WACS).

Her ultimate mission was to play a key role in the plan for the military invasion that turned the tide of the war in Europe.

In an interview we originally aired in 2007, WABE’s Steve Goss asked her to recount the events that led to her assignment to General Dwight Eisenhower.A conversation with Helen Denton (Part 1)

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