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Included in the earlier group are George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History Merritt L. Fernald '97, Fisher Professor of Natural History and Director of the Gray Herbarium; Alfred M. Tozzer, '00, John E. Hudson Professor of Archacology and Librarian of the Peabody Museum Library; Theodore Lyman '97, Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory; Walter F. Dearborn, professor of Education; and Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian, professor of Plastic Surgery...
...Morison reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans...
...Breaks. But without the planning, and above all, without the breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...even urged" the operation from the start. But General Eisenhower, for one, had termed it a plan of "quite desperate nature"; General Marshall had reported that old hands in Washington gave it only a 50-50 chance; both U.S. and British navies had counseled against it. That it succeeded, Morison concludes, proves that it was "fundamentally sound and wise." But, he adds, the difference between success and failure is sometimes less a matter of wisdom than of inches in a torpedo's course or "a few yards deflection in the fall of a.salvo...
...royalties go to the U.S. Treasury, but the judgments are Morison's rather than the Navy...