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...Sent Christmas greetings to the armed forces, to wounded service men, and to the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls and other organizations of which he is titular head. He personally presented 258 White House employes with a Christmas card, and a scroll bearing his D-day prayer in red, blue, black and gold letters...
After a week the Americans got two days of clear skies, turned them to telling account. On the second day the Allies flew more sorties than D-day's historic 11,000. On the day before, 4,500 planes had been out. Some of the known results of that first day's work were a portent of what close-up air support could do: 57 tanks and self-propelled guns knocked out; 53 vehicles smashed...
...returned soldiers had little to say. Strict secrecy was still their rule. But two facts about them and their comrades were known: all the French Canadians who had gone to France before D-day had volunteered; besides the nine who returned, only six others were known to be alive, out of nearly 70 who had dropped into France...
They had parachuted into France months before D-day to lead resistance groups, sabotage German communications, war plants, defenses, and generally help to prepare the way for the Allied invaders. One of them, 22-year-old Major Pierre Chasse of Quebec City, captured more than 6,000 Germans. Another, Captain Guy d'Artois of Montreal, was followed into France by his wife, who was sent into the country on a separate mission. They were reunited in Paris...
...artillery officer, boyish-looking, 28-year-old Captain Bliven landed in France on D-day with a group consisting mostly of green soldiers who, like himself, "didn't know enough to be adequately frightened...