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...daylight? How about the gigantic task of collecting all these "some 1,000 ships" divided into three distinct forces and bringing them to the right place at exactly the right moment? And how about the Admirals in charge of these Task Forces under Hewitt-Rear Admirals Frank J. Lowry, Bertram J. Rodgers, and Spencer Lewis...
...first with his top naval chiefs, British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. Then Ground Forces Commander General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery came aboard, in his favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...
...Germans were apparently caught napping. According to Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Allied Naval Commander, the Allies had expected to lose 10% of their landing craft. Instead they got through virtually intact. Closely timed bombardment by warships and planes put enough coast defense guns out of action to make landings possible in most places without heavy casualties...
Since 1938, when 55-year-old Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsay went on the Royal Navy's retired list, he has: 1) evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk; 2) planned the North African expedition; 3) organized the Sicily invasion; 4) turned (last December) to planning the naval phase of the Second Front...
...Allies, the crushing load pressed most heavily on sunny General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, his brilliant, pipe-smoking deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, on airmen like Britain's Leigh-Mallory and the U.S.'s "Tooey" Spaatz, on seamen like Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. And a special weight pressed on two of their top subordinates: Cromwellian General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, and Lincolnesque Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, A.U.S...