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...according to a Warner Brothers executive, should be distributed to schools all over America to impress the horrors of war upon the minds of the younger generation. The suggestion is of disputable merit, for while "The True Glory" is the definitive, comprehensive record of the invasion of Europe from D-Day to V-E Day--and should be seen by everyone as such--there is evidence that less ambitious films, documentaries on either of two other levels, are more effective as instruments toward attaining the goal sought by the Warner...
Between six and seven million unexploded German land mines are still hidden in the fertile fields and sandy beaches of Normandy and Brittany. Since D-day an average of 200 people, including many children, have been killed each month by German mines...
About the time of D-day in Europe, said Beaverbrook, Britain had 11% of its population in the forces; the U.S. had 85%. War casualties of the British Commonwealth at the end of May totaled 1,427,000, compared with American casualties of approximately 986,000 at the same time. (U.S. totals as of last week...
...first time since D-day in Normandy, 13 months ago, U.S. foot soldiers were engaged in no large-scale operations anywhere in the world. But last week the ground force commanders-and the admirals who put them ashore-left no doubt that such idleness would be shortlived. The Tenth Army's "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell told his troops he hoped they would be home by next Independence Day. Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet was for keeping up the pressure, "so Japan can't get back on balance...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...