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North of Le Mans a long line of U.S. tanks thundered to battle. Few tankmen turned to look at a huge block of dark granite in a level field which had been fought over a few days before. The granite showed shell gouges and bullet nicks, but unmarred was its inscription: Wilbur et Orville Wright, Kittyhawk...
Allied inspectors reported a gargoyle missing, one statue broken, one arch destroyed. The battle with the snipers had left little mark on the taller Gothic north tower, because the U.S. troops were careful to attack only with small arms. The plainer Romanesque south tower likewise showed only a little bullet chipping. Priests who ushered an A.P. correspondent around pointed out the slight damage to the interior-a few windows broken in the south transept, a few supports shattered behind the high altar. The glorious blue glass of Chartres was nowhere to be seen. But, said a priest: "At the start...
...called for a tank, rode atop it in a rain of fire as it sprayed the hedgerows. The tank driver was wounded. Paddy crawled down, went forward afoot. A sniper's bullet got him as he led his patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse...
...period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games-which also helped to make Caldwell famous...
...wrote it all up in a report that ran to 31 typewritten pages-and I wish we'd had the room in TIME to bring you all his stories-about Marine Edwards whose name must go on the long list of men whose lives have been saved by bullet-bouncing Bibles . . . about the bettingest man in the First Division, who won $29,000 but lost his furlough privilege on the turn of a card and never did get home . . . about the night-club owner in San Diego who almost turned Sgt. Owen Justin away because his identification card...