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General Allen, a professional soldier who prefers combat to conferences, modestly honked that chief credit for this improvement should go to rayon-smooth naval Captain Harry Butcher, ex-CBS radio executive, aide and close companion of General Eisenhower. For himself, Honk Allen claimed only to have used a field soldier's methods to help clean up a mess...
...battalion landed from light, fast assault craft on Homonhon, Dinagat and Suluan. Jap communications were hamstrung but not completely destroyed. Tokyo got some kind of word that something was afoot, but apparently could not make up its mind that this was it. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, once the butcher of North China and now island commander in the Philippines, made no special preparations for resisting a major assault...
...argument between Irene Castle McLaughlin and the city's scientists. One zealot wrote an anonymous letter to the University of Chicago's distinguished professor emeritus of physiology, Dr. Anton Julius Carlson, head of the Illinois Society for the Protection of Medical Research. The letter called him a "butcher" and said that "as surely as there are skies above, we will get you. . . . The police can't watch over you always. So, until we meet, Death." The Hearst Herald-American had directed fire at the universities by calling Chicago a city where "rich universities ... get pound dogs...
Then General de Gaulle came to Isigny and took a queue away from the butcher shop that had just reopened. He got out of his jeep at the edge of town and walked in, and the crowd followed him, cheering. But again the welcome had in it a note of restraint, as if the people were ready to like this new leader and hoped that he would give them cause to do so. They listened in respectful silence as De Gaulle (eld them that he had come to Isigny be cause Isigny had suffered most in a battle that...
...have been waterborne, he once told Butcher that when his time came he was going to insist that his ceremonial coffin be built in the shape of a landing craft. Someone else can figure out the history part...