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...aviation in 1924, when he left Georgetown University to join the Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
...Allies therefore faced a momentous strategic equation. Once the beachhead into Europe was established, they could land 100 divisions and pound on to Germany with almost 2-1 superiority. But on D-Day itself the Allies would have to land nine divisions to fight ten German divisions in bristling, fixed positions-and the Allied spearheads would be even more heavily outnumbered. "We shall have to send the soldiers into this party seeing red," said the Allied ground forces commander, Bernard Law Montgomery. "Nothing must stop them. Nothing...
...that time, the battle was won. Along a 30-mile front, the forces of freedom had secured their beachhead on Hitler's Festung Europa. The price was dear: 10,724 casualties, including 2,132 dead...
...holds of freighters from South American ports that put into Genoa about 13 years ago were some unlisted travelers -small tropical ants named Iridomyrmex humilis. Spreading rapidly from their beachhead, the tiny invaders took on the heftiest ants of Italy, annihilated them by the colony. Putting them under the microscope, University of Pavia's Zoologist Mario Pavan got to their secret: a sac of grey, waxy poison in the anal gland...
Shackleton never got closer than 60 miles to his proposed beachhead. Clamped in the vise of a null ice pack for ten months, Endurance drifted 1,000 miles northward off the Palmer Peninsula. Finally the party abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious...