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Huntsville sits along the Tennessee River. The river courses through both states, Tennessee and Alabama. Its most prominent landmark, the Redstone Arsenal, takes up 1250 acres along the river. It was built in 1941 as the second US chemical weapons plant, completed prior to the nation’s entrance into World War II but certainly in preparation.

“By means of a fake family tree and a number of worthless affidavits,” the historian Robert K. Murray wrote, “Chancellor’s circulars showed that no fewer than four separate and converging lines of Harding ancestors possessed Negro blood.”

In November 1943, Rear Admiral John Hall took command of the 11th Amphibious Force and assumed the responsibility for depositing the Army’s Fifth Corps on the landing site designated as Omaha Beach—nothing less than the most important operation in American history.

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