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...allies on the war fronts of both hemispheres, in the 3! months after D-day pushed across the naked Normandy beaches twice as many munitions, vehicles and supplies (17 million tons) as Pershing received through all of World...
...cartoon animals, only Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny are more popular today. In any event, Mickey is likely to be remembered, long after all the others are forgotten, for one decisive moment when he stood at the absolute center of human affairs. On June 6, 1944, the D-day of the Allied invasion of France, the code word for the entire Allied operation was "Mickey Mouse...
...years after his great decision. President Eisenhower loafed with Mamie at Camp David, his hideout in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain. He visited his nearby farm at Gettysburg. Pa., waded through waist-high wheat, then returned to Camp David for a session with bridge-playing friends. To the D-day anniversary ceremonies in Normandy he sent a copper torch and message, recalling Allied wartime unity (item: "My pleasant association with the outstanding soldier, Marshal Zhukov...
...World War II, stayed on with the Vichy government after the 1940 surrender, but later joined the Resistance. Served as liaison officer between the French National London, crossing the channel on numerous occasions with information on German military movements; he landed on the Normandy beaches a few weeks before D-day and later joined the Allied army as a Maquis colonel. Won a second Croix de guerre, with two more citations for bravery, and suffered a third wound that cost him the use of his right...
...like an aging actress: more and more dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far from the front lines. Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At Anzio he landed with the assault troops; on D-day he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave of the 1st Division. "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion," Capa said jauntily, "is like refusing a date with Lana Turner after completing a five-year stretch in Sing Sing...