Word: d-day
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...Another D-day has passed and our forces have achieved their primary objective and taken control of a difficult tactical situation with surprisingly small losses...
...least one crystal ball is unclouded. Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, predicted in June, 1944, shortly after D-Day, that the war in Europe would end when the Russian armies had taken Breslau, in German Silesia. Last January he weakened his prediction by saying that Breslau would fall late in February...
Long before D-day in Normandy, the War Department had begun to plan for this job as part of the business of shifting its top weight from Europe to the Pacific. The number of men to be discharged, the yardsticks by which they would be selected, the manner in which others would be reshuffled had been one of the top secrets of tall, schoolmasterish Major General William F. Tompkins and his special planning division of the General Staff in Washington...
...injury soldiers are most appalled by is severance of the spinal cord. In World War I it meant almost certain death; the few who lived were hopelessly paralyzed. Since D-day in Normandy, more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have suffered this injury. But most of them are still alive, and some are walking...
...suggest that the men who have fought steadily since D-day (or before, Heaven forbid!) be sent home from Germany and given surveys. ... A large percentage would volunteer for extra service in the Pacific if given the opportunity for advancement and additional compensation. A volunteer army recruited from the troops who fought in Europe would be an army with a high morale...