Word: bayeux
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
Henry Morgenthau was reported by Berlin radio to have stolen the great Bayeux Tapestry, the 231-foot masterpiece showing the Norman invaders, during the Secretary's recent visit to Normandy-thus adding the charge of libel to those for which Germany's war criminals may be tried...
...been captured by the Germans, then "wilfully" murdered. The shocking announcement was based on a factual investigation by an unhurried and "completely dispassionate" joint U.S.British-Canadian Court of Inquiry. Details were meager and evidence undisclosed. But it was known that the murders had occurred at Pavie, on the Caen-Bayeux highway, two days after Dday. Thirteen of the victims had been machine-gunned in a group. The Germans responsible were "members of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion of the 12th SS Panzer Division." (The SS murderers, reported Canadian Pressman Ross Munro, had been Hitler Jugend-most of them less than...
When Francois Coulet, General Charles de Gaulle's civil administrator for Normandy, fired subprefect Pierre Rochet, collaborationist chief of police of Bayeux, bitter-end patriots cheered. They pointed out that Rochet was a cousin of Pierre Pucheu, the first high Vichyite officially condemned and shot for treason...
...General smiled, gave them a message: "Please tell your chief that I am on my way to visit General Montgomery's headquarters and will be in Bayeux within an hour." People's Man. In Bayeux, first French town liberated by Anglo-American arms, loudspeakers blared the news of the General's coming. Hurriedly shops closed, Tricolors were unfurled. The people went into the streets. Children ran alongside their elders, pestered them with questions, heard only the words, "De Gaulle! General de Gaulle...