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The nub of the problem was to take Cherbourg, and to take it fast. To this task a U.S. army under Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley was assigned. It was known in advance that the Americans' job would be tough: the Nazis had flooded 500,000 acres around Carentan to...
AS "ISOLATIONIST." Editorially, the Tribune thought the idea was fine-but sturdily refused to believe him. Said the Tribune: "The President's characteristic maneuver before elections is to announce a policy in accord with the opposition's views." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat & isolationist, observed, with almost diabolical...
So the much-discussed beachhead operation emerged from the murky half-light of second-guessing which has befogged it for months. No doubt, it had been a nightmare. Thousands of soldiers were jammed into an area of 90 square miles, nearly every foot of which lay open to enemy bombs...
There was a noticeable absence of dragging garters as the Review became a memory. Compliments are in order upon the fine appearance of the Battalion. Particular praise should be awarded to the following men: "Kelly" Hunt for his "sounding off"--We feared for a while that Kel was being made...
Directly under him are two of Germany's younger generals: Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz to command the front-line defense of the Atlantic Wall; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to lead the interior army of shock and maneuver which must be thrown wherever the main Allied effort develops.