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...next day Mayer was called back to his ship and then ordered to London to become a member of DeGaulle's private staff. Not so young four years later when he rejoined Mrs. Mayer after D-Day, Mayer and his beautiful wife returned to America, his college diploma summa cum laude in hand and his war decorations in a trunk. Mayer said, "I never had that Scott Fitzgerald youth that one can imagine enjoying to the hilt . . . After spending five years as an artillery officer engaging in wholescale destruction, I wanted to help rebuild the world through science." He came...
Died. Elyesa Bazna, 66, better known as "Cicero," famed World War II spy for Germany, who could have doomed the D-day invasion had the German high command not stubbornly refused to believe his information; of kidney disease; in Munich. An Albanian national, Bazna served as valet to the British ambassador in Ankara, which enabled him to photocopy secret papers, including telegrams between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, and detailed plans for the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Germans paid him more than $1,000,000 for the information-all in counterfeit sterling notes they were circulating in hopes of undermining...
...Nixon was guilty of inflated rhetoric, it was not in equating the Cambodian campaign with D-day and Stalingrad, which he did not in fact do, but in referring to Sevareid, Chancellor and Smith as "historians." The real historian is, of course, Nixon, whose understanding of events and ease in explaining them are grapes hung too high for your foxes to grasp...
Died. Major General James Earl Rudder, U.S.A. (ret.), 59, head of the Texas A. & M. University System, and a hero of the Normandy invasion who organized and trained the Second Ranger Battalion, then led its costly (50% casualties) D-day assault on the 100-ft. cliffs at Pointe du Hoe; following complications from a stroke; in Houston...
Nineteen years ago today, I was captain in front-line combat in Korea, with orders to shoot anything that moved after dark. We did, and we "won." On D-day in Normandy and for some time afterward, the same order applied in my outfit, and we "won" that war too. So it has always been, is now and will ever be, until some power stops...