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British units in Lieut. General Henry Crerar's First Canadian Army crossed the estuary in assault boats and amphibious vehicles, made a pre-dawn landing on South Beveland, joined up with Canadians who had fought their way out along the isthmus. This week the attackers overran Goes, the peninsula's communications center. It only remained to press on to flooded Walcheren, blast the Nazis out of Flushing...
...opposite of a backslapper, Crerar has his own way of showing approval: he leans gradually sidewise toward the other man until their shoulders touch. His main social gambit is a bawdy story, diffidently told. He keeps a methodical file of these stories, to which his officers contribute regularly, each story being neatly written out on a piece of paper...
When he is concentrating on something, which is often, Crerar clears his throat with a series of rasping half-coughs. This habit has convinced him that he has a chronic cold. In Ottawa he used to keep a box of cough drops in his desk. One night, with his eyes glued on the papers he was reading, he groped for them in the drawer and a mouse ran up his sleeve. Hearing a startled bellow, the General's military secretary ran in to find him open-mouthed and shaking. Crerar sent the secretary out for more cough drops...
...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 turned out to be a brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic...
...that the Canadians are in all-out action, Crerar has become more affable and relaxed than he used to be. When his army crossed the Seine and chased the Germans beyond the Somme, he observed that the action was not a fight but an unprintable synonym for a ratrace...