Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baptism on the Beach...
...Orne River. On the right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only 197 casualties. It was D-Day's first major breakthrough...
Onto the U.S. forces' Omaha Beach, a concave sweep of sand 300 yards deep beneath fortified bluffs, the U.S. ist and 29th Divisions sent in a spearhead of 1,450 men. They ran head on into most of the German 352nd Division-undamaged by the inaccurate air bombardment-and were soon shelled, mortared, mined, machine-gunned. But even as the German commander at Omaha announced victory and began diverting his reserves against the British, U.S. Colonel George A. Taylor ordered an advance: "Now let's get the hell out of here!" Inch by inch, behind accurate naval gunfire...
...pampered jades of Asia had turned up in Miami Beach last week they might have melted with envy. One of the most pampered trades in the U.S.-the disk jockeys-had come to town 2,500 strong, and Big Daddy, in the shape of U.S. record companies, was there to take care of them. Officially, the jocks were attending the Second International Radio Programing Seminar and Pop Music Disk Jockey Convention. Actually, the convention was attending them...
...record companies had a finger in the gaudy handout. ABC-Paramount paid for all taxi rides. Columbia made tapes of D.J.s interviewing celebrities and gave them to the jocks to play on the air at home. There were free bus trips, promised airborne junkets to Mexico. Squads of local beach girls in Bikinis were relieved by company-strength detachments flown in from New York. A Texas firm gave away eight pairs of sunglasses with built-in transistor radios (proud flacks claimed they cost $5,000 apiece...