Continuing with 10 Things You Didn't Know about D-Day.
5. Among those landing at Normandy on D-Day was one J.D. Salinger (who later wrote "Catcher in the Rye"), Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (the son of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who died of a heart attack a month later) and Elliott Richardson (attorney general under President Nixon).
6. D-Day secrets were almost exposed in Chicago when a package arrived from Supreme Headquarters arrived at a Chicago mail-sorting office and was accidentally sorted. In it was a timetable and locations. Perhaps a dozen people saw it.
The FBI investigated and found that a US general's aide of German descent had sent the package to Ordnance Division G-4, but had accidentally put his sister's Chicago address on it. He was determined to have been overtired and worried about his sister, but just to be safe, they kept the postal workers under surveillance and the aide confined to quarters.
Some More Interesting Stuff. --Cooter
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