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...take a month, but then it may take six months or two weeks. . . . We have really hit them for six."* Then, waving his black beret, Monty rushed off, saying: "I must go now. Things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle Of Sicily - THE LAND: March on Rome | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...Montgomery in his desert headquarters. He sat through the interview with a fly whisk balanced steadily on one finger. "I have defeated the enemy. I am now about to smash him," he asserted flatly, relaxed and asked: "How do you like my hat?" Then wearing a tank corps beret which he had picked up, he climbed into a tank and rumbled off after his troops like a skinny avenging angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...picked up a German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Bishop's Son | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...early evening Albert Clément and his wife left the office of Le Cri du Peuple on the Rue Vivienne and started toward the boulevard. A small bicyclist, standing near by in a dark blue beret and shirt, suddenly pushed his wheel into the Cléments and fired four pistol shots, killing M. Clément and wounding his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death in the Rue Vivienne | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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