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...weather turned worse rather than better, had Rommel stayed on the scene or had Hitler sent his tanks, it is entirely conceivable that the whole landing force could have died on those beaches or been forced to turn back. As it was, at one point Lieut. General Omar Bradley, hearing of the carnage of Omaha Beach, said he feared that "our forces had suffered an irreversible catastrophe" and considered sounding the retreat and waving off the reinforcements. The decision to press on through iron rain gave his forces...
...Every man who set foot on Omaha Beach that day was a hero," Bradley later wrote, remembering the carpet of corpses, men burned alive or blown apart or drowned. All told, by the end of the first day, at least 150,000 men had landed by sea and air, and there were 10,000 casualties. But by August the Allies were speeding toward Paris on their way to victory. The German surrender came 11 months later...
...made up what Omar Bradley called the "thin wet line of khaki that dragged itself ashore" on D-day were the beneficiaries of a long and patient exercise in presidential education and artful diplomacy that sustained their belief in the righteousness of their cause, spared them an even more horrific fate, and gave them the time to do their job with dispatch and dignity. Franklin Roosevelt bought them that time. It was the Russians who largely paid the bill...
...pneumonia and typhoid fever, it pays to chat with your doctor about immunization before you board your next flight. "We're looking at vaccines in a whole new way, to be able to help travelers as much as we can in whatever destination they are going to," says Dr. Bradley Connor, president of the International Society of Travel Medicine and medical director of the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine in Manhattan...
...ambush on this road. The Marines sprint away from the building as the first tank round thunders in. Soon after they trot past the rest of the company, the whole group starts to take fire. "I can hear yelling and talking to the north," a Marine tells Captain Bradley Weston, the company's commanding officer. A bunch of Marines jump up and fire back in the general direction of the noise. Others lay down white phosphorus to mark the area where the insurgents' fire seems to have come from. A tank pumps in more tracer. From the roof...