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...parachuted from the sky oyer Normandy on D-day was a 29-year-old Anglican chaplain, George Edward Maule Parry. He was with the British 6th Airborne Division. Last week War Correspondent Leonard Mosley, who was with the same division, told what happened after that...
...last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame. Some of the airborne divisions were identified: the U.S. 82nd, tough veterans of Sicily and Salerno; the U.S. 101st, in its first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed, were annihilated. The Old Ladies. It was at 5:35 a.m. that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly...
...Right. After the fall of Rome, Alexander smashed the German right with a brilliant trick. Through the tired formations of the Allied Fifth Army he secretly slipped an entirely fresh unit-the 6th South African Armored Division (veterans of Ethiopia and East Africa). The maneuver was a stunning success. The exhausted German Fourteenth Army collapsed before the new well-organized strength...
...week's end the Allies were reported to be bombing the Nazi-occupied 6th-Century Abbey of Monte Cassino, where St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks, 1,415 years...
Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo's victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain's presence...