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...permissible exaggeration: the Korean situation was fantastically different from Walker's World War II battle experience, passed entirely as a corps commander under the late George Patton, hard-riding master of the armored attack. Walton Walker's career under Patton did not begin until 48 days after Dday. The Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps (and the rest of Patton's Third Army) was held in England until the beachhead was soundly secured.* Eisenhower had held the Third Army back for the U.S. forces' Sunday punch...
...month before Dday. Said TIME: "Just before he left [the ground troops divisional bivouac area in the south of England],he [General Bradley] made a short speech to all the officers of the division .. . He did not tell these officers that their task would be easy. He did tell them that their country was giving them the best of weapons, planning, air and naval support. But he told them that life and victory would lie in their own hands. They must be fit, know their weapons, use their skill and wits. They must have confidence in themselves; then their...
...second round began, the 165-man field was as keyed up as invasion troops on Dday. More than one old tournament hand had already come to grief along the tight, twisting fairways of the rugged Merion Golf Club course on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. A sample of the hazards ahead was the score-killing 11th hole, where a stream curls in front of the ice-slick green, curls back around the other side to swallow up any approach that overshoots the flag...
...shimmering highways. For a change, there was hope in the international air, too. In the smiling rose garden back of the White House, Harry Truman spoke to a group of war correspondents who were off to revisit the wreckage-strewn Normandy beaches on the fifth anniversary of Dday...
Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...