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...over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud and awful memory, was on the Canadians' list...
...clearer rang another call across the mountains and valleys. Over the radio from London came the voice of Jan Masaryk, son of the nation's founder...
...been planted at three places where the parade was known to have planned to stop. Whether the first shots were fired at Notre Dame, nobody could be sure. But the shooting started there just as the procession reached the cathedral. The time was 4:20. As the first shots rang out, Leclerc and Koenig tried to hustle De Gaulle through the door. De-Gaulle shook off their hands and never faltered. While the battle began outside, he walked slowly down the aisle. Before he had gone many paces a machine pistol fired down from above. At least two more joined...
...ears of the citizens still rang the crump of heavy bombs, the thunderous rumble of pulverized masonry settling into rubble. Shattered were the post office, the Palais du Commerce, university buildings. The cathedral's stained-glass windows hung in lacy tatters. It was not the U.S. guns or planes that had done this. The departing Germans had set time bombs which exploded throughout the night. The wreckage was a reminder...
Realization. Said the official report: "The resultant feeling on the part of individuals was that they were being double-crossed, and the feeling gradually grew up, abetted by certain officers, that the unit was an orphan, serving under an unsympathetic high command." That rang familiarly in Army ears: too often had the orphan complex been the fate of "special units...