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...Hitler is forearmed. He knows that the main blow of any full-scale invasion must fall somewhere between Brest and Den Helder, where The Netherlands had its chief naval base (see map, p. jo). Over the area where they first seek an invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic...
...words that came from the radio wherever Germans listened on contraband frequencies were German. But the accent was British, the voice pleasantly impersonal. Burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F.'s Bomber Command, had gone on the air to promise that his bombers (and the Americans') would "scourge the Third Reich from...
...commands the Canadians in World War II was a soldier in World War I, and he is determined to lead Canadians back to France. Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton says often and in many ways that his Canadian Army Overseas is a dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin. He knows where he wants to thrust the dagger. His ideas may or may not coincide with those of the Allied high command, and with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with...
High point in the colonel's military career was a Distinguished Service Medal awarded him in 1923 (during the Harding administration), not for combat service but for "rare leadership . . . unusual executive ability . . . close supervision of training, discipline and command...
...Already on hand: Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and his bomber command chief, Brigadier General Ira Eaker (TIME, July...