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...dispatches that the highly advertised defenses were "the biggest bluff of the whole war," the London Times military correspondent rumbled: "This is to do less than justice to the Allied troops." Said Reuter's Stanley Burch: "You could not make a single pinpoint on the map of the invasion beachhead not covered by crossfire from machine guns, mortars or light artillery...
...chief before him, he settled down to chain-smoking cigarets, to sweating out a miserable period of waiting-of confused, skimpy, incomplete reports, while other men put his campaign plans to the test. Not until five days later could he make his first brief inspection visit to the beachhead. Then he had eminent companions: General Marshall, Admiral King and General Arnold, who had flown from Washington to London during the week...
...civilian mind. Item: the Navy's overall plan for the operation ran to 800 type written pages; a complete set of naval orders including maps weighed 300 pounds. Yet the broad outlines were simple : 1) organize the force; 2) move it across; 3) sustain it on the beachhead. For this the Allies deployed their great strength, the 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, hundreds of thousands of men, machines, guns. Ike's Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly...
Today is D plus three. Nobody has had his boots off yet. Until yesterday we were surrounded, under constant fire. There will be more of it. But the beachhead forces have joined up with us and now the shells are going in the other direction...
...House of Commons, Churchill was asked to give assurances that he would not go to France. He ignored the demand, kept silent. This week Allied Headquarters disclosed that the Prime Minister, accompanied by South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, had visited the Normandy Beachhead...