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Said the unofficial Army & Navy Journal last week: "Since D-day in France, greater preoccupation has been shown by Russia in her Baltic and Balkan campaigns and by Great Britain in Italy, Greece and Albania than in the prime objective of our armies-the prompt defeat of Germany. In the liberated countries there have been Communistic and British interference and clashing which affect military operations. ... It was expected from the attitude of Marshal Stalin a year ago that he would cooperate. . . . [Now] Communistic activities would indicate that no effective brake has been applied...
First Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, a former Associated Press photographer, had the most vexing experience. On D-day he entrusted a carrier pigeon with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...First Army was Bradley's pride & joy after D-day (it is still his favorite). But Bradley had a bigger job cut out for him: combined command of the First and of General Patton's armor-heavy Third, whenever the Third could be broken loose out of Normandy. Hodges was on hand to run the First...
...made a de luxe landing. They not only found planes of their own Balkan Air Force operating from airfields ahead of them; they also found supplies and fuel neatly arranged in dumps and not a German in sight. Said one officer: "When those fellows got off the boat on D-day they even had mail waiting for them. . . . The only casualty in the whole operation...
...Tinian, Siwash got back into his waddle: he hit the beach on D-day and personally captured a tiny Jap duck. But he had to leave his war bride behind...