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...D is for D-Day 15 years ago this week, recalled in story and a brilliant war map. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Allies therefore faced a momentous strategic equation. Once the beachhead into Europe was established, they could land 100 divisions and pound on to Germany with almost 2-1 superiority. But on D-Day itself the Allies would have to land nine divisions to fight ten German divisions in bristling, fixed positions-and the Allied spearheads would be even more heavily outnumbered. "We shall have to send the soldiers into this party seeing red," said the Allied ground forces commander, Bernard Law Montgomery. "Nothing must stop them. Nothing...
World War II. 25,540 of the almost 100,000 living alumni and students served in the Allied forces and 455 of them never returned. In addition, 654 Faculty and staff members, one-third of the peacetime total, were serving in either military or government capacities as of D-Day...
...Eniwetok. Returning to the Pacific to observe the "breaking of the Bismarcks barrier," he sent an assistant to the Mediterranean to report on the landing at Anzio. Still in the spring of '44, Morison took part in the Saipan and Guam landings, as an assistant was on hand for D-Day. Another assistant observed the action in Leyte Gulf...
...Maurice Challe, 53, a fiery patriot after De Gaulle's own heart. After the French collapse in World War II, Airman Challe distinguished himself in the resistance by personally leading and executing "most delicate and dangerous" missions. He is credited with having obtained for the Eisenhower headquarters before D-day the order of battle of the German Luftwaffe, the placement of flak installations and of the main dispositions of the German army. Characterized as a man "who always happily chooses the most perilous posts," General Challe is a dedicated Gaullist...