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...DDay: Communist Commanding General Vo Nguyen Giap opens fire against Dienbienphu's two airstrips, supply dumps, parked aircraft and battalion-command posts. At 1700 hours, he concentrates 105-mm. fire-one shell every six seconds-against two French battalions on top of two 1,500-ft. hills to the northeast and the north of Dienbienphu. The French call these hill positions Beatrice and Gabrielle. A direct hit knocks out the For eign Legion command post on Beatrice. De Castries radios Indo-China command in far-off (180 miles) Hanoi: "The attack has begun...
...road and plane, hundreds of white children were sent to friends in Mombasa, 300 miles away on the Kenya coast. It was the tensest week since the Mau Mau emergency began. Nairobi's 16,000 whites were frankly awaiting a big Mau Mau attack. Probable Mau Mau Dday: April 8, when the court verdict on London-educated Jomo Kenyatta, alleged leader of the Mau Mau, is delivered...
...Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded at Bastogne. Flew back to Europe, then...
...World War II. As a political and military history, Dunkirk to V-E day, it could easily be labeled anti-American. Yet it deserves a fair hearing and not just as a matter of courtesy. Wilmot, a BBC war correspondent who went in with the British airborne troops on Dday, has written a better and more readable account of the fighting in Europe than any of the generals or their ghosts, British...
What is a division? To Eisenhower, it is a unit as strong as the U.S. divisions that he debarked on Dday, 1944. To the Lisbon planners, a division is only 75% of that strength. According to Eisenhower's figures, Lisbon actually agreed to only 40 divisions...