Word: cherbourg
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Service Forces, he soon became its prize troubleshooter. Example: when the Army's supply lines kinked at Cherbourg, Clay crossed the Atlantic to unkink them. In one day he doubled the supplies shipped to the front, quintupled them before he left. In the production "crisis" last December, the White House moved General Clay into Jimmy Byrnes's office, gave him vast, if vague, powers to make sure that the armed forces get what they want...
From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
Said one 21-year-old private: "They seem to think us fellows of the 716th [716th Railway Operation Battalion] were the only ones that did anything. That ain't right. All along the line [the railway leading from Cherbourg to Paris] there were any amount of men doing the same thing, maybe on a higher scale...
...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...