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Proof of the Pudding. Bradley is not the kind of man to worry about his place in history, and he is too busy for that now, anyway. He pops awake every morning at 7, breakfasts an hour later, has a briefing on the previous days' operations at 9:15...
Crerar's Mind. Last Aug. 7, the eve of the Canadians' push on Falaise, in a sunlight-flooded barn, correspondents in France took the measure of Henry Crerar as a soldier. Wearing freshly shined boots and talking like a military-school professor, Crerar gave them a briefing which...
Near week's end an Allied communique on Normandy told its story in five glum words: "There is nothing to report." Next day, at the midnight news conference a briefing officer opened the session wryly : "Well, gentlemen, I hope the Russians have done something today." General Montgomery's...
Inside a barbed-wire enclosure, where the crews of a troop carrier squadron were confined like some kind of rare and precious birds, a whistle skirled. Pilots, copilots, navigators turned out, listened to the briefing. They squinted at the sky. It was a squally night with a fitful, pale moon...
The Briefing Was Over. The men climbed into trucks, whipped off to the airfield. Already a clattering rumble spread across the night-hung countryside: engines on the warmup. They piled out of the trucks at the darkened stations and went to work.