Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scandalous G.I. cigaret shortage in France aroused the Army to swift action. Last week, after nearly two months of careful undercover work, investigators announced their first big haul. Arrested at various posts between Cherbourg and Paris, close to 200 soldiers, including two officers, confessed to receiving a total of $200,000 from black-market sales of-stolen cigarets...
...York Times reported last fortnight that SHAEF censors had just released, five months to the day after its filing, a Times correspondent's report of the capture of two German airfields on the Cherbourg peninsula...
Eisenhower has a pleasant and sense-making way of telling his commanders what his general strategic objectives are, then letting them devise their own tactics. It was Bradley who designed the breakthrough to the west side of the Normandy peninsula, cutting off Cherbourg, and the breakthrough at Saint-Lô which began the battle of France. For the latter, he had an unheard-of number of heavy bombers laying down a tactical preparation (causing some U.S. casualties), and he had not only regiments but divisions attacking in column. Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps...
Budapest itself was holding out but it was in trouble. Apparently the Germans were determined to fight to the last Hungarian, determined to make the romantic, sophisticated old capital another Aachen or Cherbourg. Refugees, food shortages and lack of bomb shelters had brought the city near to chaos. Pest, the section on the east bank of the Danube, was ordered evacuated. Pillboxes, barbed wire, tank obstacles blocked the streets...
...photographer, had the most vexing experience. On D-day he entrusted a carrier pigeon with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...