Word: dday
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...needed all its pride and skill for the next job: Dday, June 6, 1944. Under Major General Clarence Huebner, the ist landed in Normandy, and will never forget it. The blood of foot soldiers reddened the sands of "Omaha Beach"; more than 740 men of one battalion were awarded the Bronze Star. Later the division took part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared...
...Dday, June 6, the Germans had no air defense in Normandy. Although they had now mustered 300 divisions, they could spare only 50, including six or seven Panzer divisions, for the defense of France; the rest were tied up elsewhere...
Clearly the German Army was in the stage of panicky crackup before final disintegration. This week the U.S. War Department announced the total of Germans captured by the western Allies since Dday...
...gloomed that the market might not perform as expected, because it seldom has, during the war. For example, when the fall of the Philippines forecast a long, bitter war, the market started up. Reason: the war was bound to bail out many a floundering company. Stocks fell soon after Dday, at the prospect of an early peace, fell again when U.S. troops jumped the Rhine. President Roosevelt's death gave them a lusty boost (TIME, April 23). Perversely, in the fa ce of an end to the German war, they have risen ever since...
...scoopster of radio journalism (he has never yet jumped from a plane), but a quiet, grey-eyed, bespectacled graduate of the University of Kansas. He used to be a United Press reporter, joined CBS's London staff in 1942, reported by microphone from Moscow the following year. Since Dday, he has spent most of his time plodding along with the land forces in western Europe, is now assigned to the Twenty-First Army Group...