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...third is from Charles Wertenbaker (see FOREIGN NEWS), chief of the TIME & LIFE staff on the beachhead in Normandy...
...Washington the Navy let word leak out that it had reduced all of its fighter-plane production, even that of Long Island's famed Grumman Aircraft (Hellcats and Wildcats). Before long the Navy, pleased at the low losses in small landing craft on the French beachhead, expects to cut back this program, which has had a longtime No. 1 priority...
Back to the Pigeon. What had delayed the beachhead stories? U.S. editors did not know for four days. Then they learned only a little. It was not censorship this time, but a breakdown in communications. Radio transmitters for the press, sent in on jeeps, had been washed out in the landings. The intricately planned system for sending copy to England by courier never got going, for lack of couriers...
Another Army crackdown disclosed last week was the demotion of Major General Ernest J. Dawley, corps commander of the troops who established the Salerno beachhead in Italy. Last September the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark dropped Dawley to his permanent rank of colonel for losing control of a combat situation...
...been a radioman for 16 years, turned in the best recordings of them all. One was a beachhead interview with a Brooklyn sailor who had helped bring the first wave over. Another, which was repeated over & over again by U.S. networks, had everything. It was an account of the Nazi bombing of the U.S. flagship (probably a cruiser) Hicks was aboard during the Channel crossing. His calm description of the scene was accompanied by the sound of the ship's ack-ack guns, the gunfire from nearby ships,'the calling of all hands to General Quarters, the excited comments...