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...Harbor, Salinger was drafted. Eventually he was shipped to England as part of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps, which was training American soldiers to do things like interrogate suspected Nazi collaborators. He brought with him a little typewriter that he carried across Europe, writing all the time. On D-Day he was part of an infantry regiment that landed on the beach at Normandy. By August, Salinger's regiment had fought its way to Paris and from there pushed on to Germany. In the autumn and winter he would be involved in some of the most horrific campaigns...
...real loneliness of the office does not come from old friends preening and new ones pretending. It comes from the nature of the job. Dwight D. Eisenhower recalled how as a general, before D-Day, he had to decide whether to send two paratroop divisions into a sector where 9 out of 10 would probably be slaughtered. He eventually decided the troops were essential to the mission, and for years after that, he said, "I felt that only once in a lifetime could a problem of that sort weigh as heavily on a man's mind and heart." Then...
...living witnesses who can tie him to specific killings, so prosecutors will have to rely on past statements from witnesses who are now deceased and written documents. If convicted, Demjanjuk faces up to 15 years in prison - the usual maximum sentence in Germany. (See pictures of the faces of D-Day...
...know that veterans who serve" their communities after shedding their uniforms "have better transitions," says John Bridgeland, chief of Civic Enterprises, the public-policy group that conducted the landmark survey, which was funded by Target and the Case Foundation. (Watch a slide show of the faces of D-day...
...German jail, saying he hadn't been present to defend himself at the 1949 trial. Ulrich Maass, a prosecutor for the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Dortmund, then took up the case and succeeded in pushing it to trial. (See pictures of the faces of D-day...