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...Bert Brandt, an Acme photographer, later reported: "Boats were burning and a pall of smoke hung over the beach. I saw some bodies of soldiers who had been killed in the first landings floating in the water. . . . There were tremendous rafts floating offshore, jammed with trucks, tanks, ambulances...
What the newspapers lacked in eyewitness stories they almost made up in swift and excellent picture coverage. First to get to London with photographs of the landings was Acme's stocky, persuasive Bert Brandt (see cut). He would have had a notable scoop if his negatives had not been pooled. Cameraman Brandt took no chances on couriers, made three hitchhiking boat transfers in the rough Channel before reaching England, finished his journey in a jeep. His pictures of the invasion beaches were the first to reach...
Music for dancing will be provided by Bert Edwards and his orchestra, while entertainment features for the evening will include CBS's feminine singing star. Lee Nash, and the Regimental Trio, highlighting Jack Kelly on the tenor...
...Bert Edwards and his orchestra have been engaged to play for the Supply Corps Ball, to be held Saturday, June 17 at the Copley-Plaza, the committee announced yesterday. Members of the two Harvard Schools, the Wellesley Supply School, and the Radcliffe WAVE contingent have been invited...
After D-day there would still be strategic bombing-Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's day bombers would perhaps be as busy as they are now and Air Chief Marshal "Bert" Harris would still send his heavies deep into Germany by night. But the strategic bombers would no longer have the show entirely to themselves, to put their theories, tactics and tools to the only real test. What they had accomplished by that day would have to stand as the interim report on air power used as a single weapon against a big and highly developed industrial nation...