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...chief base at Marrakech, 100 miles from the sea in the high Atlas Mountains. At Marrakech, if anywhere, army units loyal to Vichy would probably make their stand. But with Marrakech in hand, the U.S. troops would also have the southern terminus of Morocco's railway system and command of a rail route to Casablanca itself...
...last spring General George C. Marshall summoned Dwight David ("Ike") Eisenhower to his office and said to him: "You're going over to command the European divisions. When can you leave?" Eisenhower's blue eyes widened. "Tomorrow morning," he gulped...
Abilene to Tizi-Ouzou. Commander of this hard, tough, if slightly bewildered army, undertaking the greatest military invasion in the history of the U.S., is Texas-born, Kansas-bred. Fourteen months ago, big, powerful Ike Eisenhower was only a colonel. Forty years ago, he was tending his old man's chickens in Abilene, Kans. This week he was in command of a hatful of crack U.S. generals, at least one admiral and all the expedition's allied ground, sea and air units. Under his shrewd, blue eyes was a country bristling with such names as Tizi-Ouzou, Bougie...
...Young Men. Eisenhower is a young general (52), and under him, in vital points of command, are young men. Youngest is 45-year-old Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, the weather-beaten little man who led U.S. bombers over Tokyo and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit. Daredevil flyer, Jimmy Doolittle has a long list of aviation "firsts." He was first to span the continent in a single day, first Army pilot to do the hazardous outside loop, first to try an experimental kind of blind flight. Jimmy Doolittle is in command of Eisenhower...
...command of the operations against the west African coast is roaring, gimlet-eyed Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine...