Brother Omar Bradley led the D-Day invasion in Normandy this date in 1944. The soft-spoken general had an accident as a youth, which may have added to the perception he was somewhat shy. While skating at dusk on the lake at Forest Park in Moberly, Missouri, limited visibility caused him to collide with another skater. He described the event as "bone smashing" and said it knocked almost all of his teeth loose leaving them a jumbled mess. His family had no money for a dentist and he had to live with the resulting bad teeth for the rest of his life. Bradley himself explained that is the reason he is rarely seen smiling in photographs.
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