Word: cherbourg
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...Producer Eisenhower the problem was to get his cast and props on the spot at once. The Germans clinging to the ports of France were spending their lives to delay him. Eisenhower's drives were already in operation at a fantastic distance of 400 to 550 miles from Cherbourg and the nearby beaches, the fount of his supplies. If he were to attack quickly he would have to have miracles from his service of supply...
...first book about the invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the fall of Cherbourg, represents a remarkable publishing feat. Largely written in France, it was assembled and refurbished during a fortnight in London, dispatched to the publishers piecemeal. The last chapters reached the U.S. by courier less than three weeks before publication...
...Lorient -U.S. soldiers plugged at a less spectacular pace. The British, ready to close on Le Havre, hoped it would not become another Brest. But they had little hope that the Germans, if they were squeezed out, would not first clog its deep port with destruction, as they had Cherbourg...
Last week, two months after the surrender, the first Allied ship was unloaded at a Cherbourg wharf. Its cargo: eight locomotives and 24 freight cars-to get more supplies moving...
...division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...