Word: cross-channel
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Holiday Mood. In London, when the Daily Herald sent a couple of reporters and three homing pigeons to cover a cross-Channel swim, the reporters came home, but the pigeons headed, respectively, for Paris, Marseille and the Riviera...
...Secretary of War from the pre-Pearl Harbor Lend-Lease campaign until after V-J day, Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson never wavered in two firm convictions. One was that ultimate victory could be assured only by a cross-Channel invasion of Europe. The other was that the sooner the invasion came the better. In the first excerpts from his wartime autobiography, published in the January issue of the Ladies' Home Journal,* 80-year-old Henry Stimson this week gave his account of the battle he fought for adoption of his strategy...
...Lingering Predilection." From the outset, Stimson's major opponents were the two sometimes brilliant, always compelling men who ran the war from Washington and London. Though both Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had early accepted the War Department's Operation BOLERO (a 50-division cross-Channel assault by the summer of 1943), "neither of the two had been fully and finally persuaded...
...Anglo-American councils, Ingersoll believes, the British played a particular game. First they tried to "win over each new American officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading...
...miracle, which began so far back, showed most spectacularly on the transatlantic shore. British merchantmen and U.S. landing craft performed it in cross-Channel transportation. British ingenuity performed it by entirely new (and still secret) means of making open beaches almost as useful as ports. U.S. Navy specialists performed it in building up Cherbourg's shattered port to a capacity far greater than in peacetime. Army engineers performed it on the beaches and close behind the battle line. Loaders, repair men, railroad men, truck drivers, oil men, flyers stretched that far-flung performance farther & farther as the front advanced...