It was just after 8 a.m. on Monday, July 17, 1944. Twenty-one year old Elizabeth Teass, a Western Union clerk in Bedford, Virginia, was operating a Teletype machine near the back of Green’s Drug Store when the first telegraph came
In 1942, with the threat of an Allied invasion looming, Adolf Hitler ordered the construction of one of the largest military fortification systems ever built. Known as the Atlantic Wall, it stretched more than 3,100 miles along Europe's western coastline,