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...gaping wound on the left side of his forehead. He was walking crazily in the water, without his helmet. Then I saw him get down on his knees and start praying with his rosary beads. At this moment, the Germans cut him in half with their deadly cross fire. I saw the reflection from the helmet of one of the snipers and took aim, and later on, I found out, I got a bull's-eye on him. It was my only time that rifle fired--due to the bullet that hit my rifle. It must have shattered the wood...
...BLOODY OMAHA" More than one -third of the first wave of soldiers were killed or wounded fighting to cross an obstacle-strewn beach while heavy fire rained down from the cliffs...
Sources: U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations: Cross-Channel Attack, by Orlando Ward; The Penguin Atlas of D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, by John Man; D-Day Gliders, by Philippe Esvelin; D-Day 1944, Omaha Beach, by Steven J. Zaloga
...such booty as a Manhattan apartment and use of the corporate jet, worth some $2.5 million; it was discovered by investors only after the perks were disclosed during his divorce proceedings. "Essentially, CEOs talk to their compensation consultants and say, 'What is it that would get me in the cross hairs of my shareholders?' They then avoid that and come up with another way to get a big raise," says Sarah Teslik, executive director of the Council of Institutional Investors...
...Formula 1 racing--kind of a NASCAR for the rest of the world--Michael Schumacher is king. He has claimed six world championships, including the past four for Ferrari. In an example of blatant but stylish cross-marketing, Olympus will introduce in July the official camera of Schumacher's racing team, the Ferrari Digital Model 2004 ($699), a 3.2megapixel digital camera with 3X optical zoom. The innards were conceived mainly by Olympus' brain trust. (Its sleek body is less than 1 in. thick, thanks to a periscope-style zoom lens, and though measuring only 3.7 in. across, it still...