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Along a 6,000-mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...ruling all France. On the day he entered Paris, Washington and London at long last had come to an agreement with his self-styled Provisional Government. Next day, General Ike Eisenhower gave at least de facto blessing. The Supreme Allied Commander appeared without public notice, drove to the Arc de Triomphe, waved and smiled his Kansas smile. The General had invited De Gaulle to accompany him, but other duties prevented. But with Ike Eisenhower were De Gaulle's seconds in command: Generals Koenig and Leclerc. Again Paris roared its acclaim. There was no sniping. Said De Gaulle...
...Americans had thrown an arc around the city on two sides, buckled it to the Seine...
From Versailles's gardens, ten miles west of the Place de la Concorde, the arc extended to Corbeil, 15 miles up the Seine from Paris. General Eisenhower did not tell the Germans exactly how far his encircling arc reached. But he was al ready in position to sweep completely around Paris to the east...