Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...
...council adjourned, to meet again at Lake Success this week. Some of its members boarded the Queen Mary at Cherbourg and promptly got stuck for twelve hours in a mudbank. That was a simile come to life-and a lot more accurate than the ones the diplomats thought...
...that he should be a priest. To please her, when he was 18, he went off to Spain and the University of Salamanca. But Spain made him restless-he steeped himself in the wild history of the Spanish conquistadors* -and after a year and a half he went to Cherbourg, and slipped off to America in the steerage of a liner...
...France, the worst damage had been done in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen triangle, during the slow, crunching offensives that set up the U.S. breakthrough. Caen had felt Montgomery's massed artillery, but its nth Century Abbaye-aux-Hommes survived. Rouen Cathedral was the only major French church in partial ruin, but it had not been "nearly so hard-hit as Reims was in World War I. From Saint-Lõ forward, U.S. guns had chopped down church steeples to blast out snipers...
...France, it was a tragic loss. Since June 1944, when slender, blond, esthete Imbs (rhymes with rims) established the first free radio for the OWI in Cherbourg, he has been the darling of the French air waves, broadcasting as many as five shows a week throughout France. He spoke knowingly of American jive, presented France's best recorded jazz hot, got as many as 400 fan letters a week. The French liked the tone of his voice, and thought his Yankee accent charming...