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...mind. In Africa, breezy Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham had combined the three tenets to slug the Germans out of the sky, and then pace Montgomery's march across the desert with advance air strikes. The Americans used the technique to break the stalemates below Rome. D-day was the prime result of applying Principles 1 and 2 (the whittled Luftwaffe had been pushed back from the Channel, the Seine-Loire triangle had been effectively isolated days before the invasion). The Allies' sweep across France was speeded by air power's application of Principle 3 in team...
Beachhead to Berlin (U.S. Coast Guard; Warner). This two-reel Coast Guard film lacks the sustained high cinematic level and intensity of the best U.S. war films. But it contains scenes which show D-day in a tragic splendor which no other film has caught so well. The best of these shots give the event something of its scope and meaning against the.even greater scope and meaning of nature, for they catch (in color) the conclave of great ships and the deadly surge shoreward of landing craft under fire, among the all but unbelievable lights and tints...
Wounded on D-day when the LST he was riding went down off the southern coast of France, Lieutenant (jg) Jerome Dobin USNR received the Purple Heart medal from Commander M. E. Paradise, officer-in-charge, Naval Training Schools (Communications) at a ceremony in the Yard Wednesday morning...
...which the lieutenant was assigned, was destined to be the only ship sunk in the entire action. After 20 minutes in the water, the men on the life raft were picked up by the crew of one of the other Allied vessels in the D-day engagement...
...Mice & Men. In May, a U.S. correspondent in London had observed: "The most brilliantly conceived and thoughtfully worked out plans may fail utterly if the weather conditions on D-day and several days thereafter should prove unfavorable...