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...plus one-Wednesday-General Dwight David Eisenhower felt justified in leaving his advanced command post in England long enough for his first close look at how the invasion was going. Boarding a British cruiser, he steamed along the invasion coast for four and a half hours, held conferences with his operational commanders...
...best recordings of them all. One was a beachhead interview with a Brooklyn sailor who had helped bring the first wave over. Another, which was repeated over & over again by U.S. networks, had everything. It was an account of the Nazi bombing of the U.S. flagship (probably a cruiser) Hicks was aboard during the Channel crossing. His calm description of the scene was accompanied by the sound of the ship's ack-ack guns, the gunfire from nearby ships,'the calling of all hands to General Quarters, the excited comments of the gun crew making their first kill, the hurt...
...diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing and muffled shouts of crew']. . . . Here we go again! Another plane has come over (roar of motors). . . . The cruiser right alongside us is pouring it up (sound of ack-ack). . . . Something burning is falling down through the sky and circling down. It may be a hit plane (machine-gun fire). Here we go. They got one! They got one! . . . (Gun crew voices: "We made it look like polka dots...
...Midway. On that day four battered old Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
...Remained publicly mum about a one-day flare-up in Congress over whether or not the U.S. had given a U.S. cruiser to the Russians. The question was angrily raised by New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges. No one seemed to care about the cruiser; but everyone agreed they wanted more information from the White House...