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2024-10-29 14:02:27 UTC - HELPFUL
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A majority of those who landed in Normandy on D-Day were British or Canadian, and ineligible to vote in US elections. Polls suggest most (61%) US service personnel at the time would have likely voted for FDR not his Republican challenger . https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/features/2016/0516_dday/docs/d-day-fact-sheet-the-beaches.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/service-vote-in-the-elections-of-1944/2594AF35F78ED8907FE6CAEFAEE0E126
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