Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stormed ashore under the Red Ensign. Originally designed to identify Canadian ships at sea is Britain's standard merchant ma rine flag with the Union Jack in the quarter of a red field - to which is added Canada's coat of arms in the fly. The Canadian beach was at Bernierès-sur-Mer, between Caen and the Orne River. There, for the first time in history, Canada fought under her own national flag...
...date for keeps; Tommy Smith in an angle in the wall deep in intellectual fog with someone very charming to be that way with; Dan Brestel, also fighting toward the bar with little success; and Jason Widmer, who had his buffet supper with his date at Revere Beach...
...light our blacked-in room, and in their dimness the new arrival looks completely grey. He is all dust, from helmet to boots. He commands the troop's light tanks, which have been up against the Germans' heavier Mark IVs and VIs since the column left the beach. The only break in the tank commander's greyness is a red gash in his right index finger. He inspects the gash and says he got it buttoning up his tank. He tells his story briefly, tiredly, carefully...
...like pieces of coal in a bin, halfway up the walls. Not only shoes. Boots. Rubbers. Leggings. Slippers. Children's shoes, soldiers' shoes, old shoes, new shoes. They were red and grey and black. Some had once been white. High heels, low heels, shoes with open toes. Evening slippers, beach sandals, wooden Dutch shoes, pumps, Oxfords, high-laced old-ladies' shoes. In one corner there was a stock of artificial limbs. I kicked over a pair of tiny white shoes which might have been my youngest daughter...
Correspondent Wertenbaker's vivid, thoughtful account of his own observations in France is supplemented by lengthy quotations from A.P. Correspondent Don Whitehead and LIFE Photographer Robert Capa, who went in at the toughest point of the Normandy beach, and TIME Correspondent William Walton, who jumped with a paratroop unit. The result is a well-rounded account, and first-rate journalism...