Word: cherbourg
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...trained all his officers and 150 of his men to be divers, at the Pier 88 salvage school and in the dank holds of the capsized Normandie three years ago. Their graduate work had been done in the choked harbors of Casablanca and Oran, at Salerno and Naples and Cherbourg...
...With the 101st and the British 6th, its men spearheaded the invasion of France. Casualties were heavy. Many a rifleman of the 82nd died in the ditches and orchards of Normandy. But the outfit secured its area, broke through, crossed the Douve and led the drive which sealed off Cherbourg, later taken by the 79th ("Lorraine"), the 4th ("Ivy") and the gth-all infantry divisions...
Alfred E. Smith, late, longtime lover of the sidewalks of New York, was nostalgically remembered by G.I.s when the freighter bearing his name docked at Cherbourg. A burly MP asked if it was the ship containing a flagstone from the sidewalk in front of Al's old East Side home. Told that it was, he climbed aboard, reverently placed his foot on the stone. Next day some 200 New Yorkers in his outfit visited the ship-to see, touch, kiss their native "soil...
General Clay, who had the most fun of his life straightening out the supply muddle at Cherbourg last fall, remained above the Washington row. This week he happily packed his bags, got ready to report to General Eisenhower. The complete soldier, he was glad to go to Germany to see things through...
A.S.F. Front. The Allies were determined to use the port. It was close to the fighting front. Cherbourg, LeHavre, Marseille were useful (and still are), but the shortest route to the front lay through Antwerp. As soon as Antwerp's port, damaged by the fleeing Germans, was opened again, the Allies lost no time in putting it to work. British supply troops and men of the U.S. Army Service Forces moved...