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...Main Prize. The decision to hold back the Ninth Army was made by Ike for military reasons that seemed plausible at the time-and still do. Before Dday, Ike had listed Berlin as his primary military target, a priority made on the assumption that the Wehrmacht would concentrate about the city and defend it to the death. In September 1944, Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery urged "one really powerful and full-blooded thrust toward Berlin" through northern Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish...
...Dday. H-hour. A landing craft touched and stopped off Pointe du Hoc between Utah and Omaha beaches. Out jumped a combat unit, including three grizzly-looking soldiers who crossed 150 yds. of pebble beach through a heavy traffic of westbound bullets, fired a grappling hook to the top of a cliff and began to scale it. "We'll never make it," said one of them. "Three old ladies with brooms could keep us off this cliff...
...Mediterranean isn't the English Channel and Corsica isn't Normandy, but Darryl Zanuck has been making sequences for The Longest Day, his re-creation of Dday, near a beige and white Corsican fishing village. Zanuck needed the U.S. Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local...
Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Chapter 17, "The Die Is Cast": final preparations for Dday...
...small chamber near the rotunda, whistled softly to himself. At last he got the word that everything was ready, walked out onto the windswept platform, sat down next to Ike, and the two passed a few minutes in an animated discussion of Cornelius Ryan's book on DDay, The Longest Day, which Kennedy had been reading. It was 12:13 o'clock-and even though he had not yet taken his oath of office, Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since the stroke of noon. The Marine Band struck up America the Beautiful...