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...these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used to sell insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads to airfields where later paratroopers would land. Word trickled back to their base last week that at least some of them were still alive-and therefore, of course, still...
Tough, eloquent General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery rose to the occasion of D-day with this special message to the Allied armies...
...night before D-Day, few of the paratrooper comrades of TIME Correspondent William Walton tried to sleep. After midnight they turned out, climbed into EUR-475. They were the spear head; some of them would not live to see that day's dawn. Walton, a qualified parachutist attached to the outfit, crawled in with them, was soon over France. He cabled...
When the news of D-day reached Lyons, thousands on their way to work danced in the streets, hugged and kissed in Gallic joy, sang La Marseillaise, shouted: "Vive la France! Vive les Allies!" German and Vichy forces dared not interfere just then. Later the police staged a mass roundup...
...D-day plus one, the Zoological Society's council, which runs the Regent's Park Zoo, decided to build a new elephant house, put the parrots on its upper floor, move the insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...