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Thanks to you I now know, at least, what the hell they're talking about. FLOYD A. HATFIELD ist Lieutenant c/o Postmaster San Francisco...
...Airborne. That first day the paratroopers had landed near midnight-six hours before H-hour-to prepare the way for the glider-borne divisions which had swooped like hell's witches into the area behind the German lines...
...plus-six, despite the intervening hell of fire, high winds and high water, the Allies sped up their advance. U.S. troops took Carentan, drove farther south-west toward sealing off the peninsula. Said Montgomery: "American troops did absolutely magnificently," recovering from a situation in which they had been "hanging on by their eyelids. ... I am very pleased with the progress so far. Our soldiers . . . are in tremendous form . . . full of beans. And they have already got the measure of the enemy...
...there is still another factor. In the rapid Air Forces expansion following Pearl Harbor, young men were pushed into important jobs because they could do them. The policy of "Hap" Arnold (57), who respects youth more than most oldsters, was to bestow rank commensurate with the job, and to hell with seniority...
...construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...