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...second Quebec Conference last week the story leaked out. Couture, 29, and Gernaey, 37, were awarded British Empire Medals for keeping the biggest secret of the war. Who had lost the D-day document, or what had happened to him, military authorities would...
Another airborne D-day had struck the enemy and he had no aircraft to oppose...
Rough-&-ready Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton had fidgeted for weeks waiting for the moment to arrive. Seventeen times since his small-scale assists on D-day he had drawn up the detail of tactics for a historic stroke: the parachuting of an Allied army, a force of truly army size, capable of fighting on its own, behind the German lines. Seventeen times he had scrapped the plans: the Allied ground forces had advanced so swiftly that his First Allied Airborne Army was not needed...
Liberated Brussels made liberated Paris seem restrained. Sweaty British Tommies had to push hard to get through the shrieking, kissing, singing throngs. Said one: "This is the first time since D-day that I've been offered a cigaret instead of asked...
Reasons for Pride. Just before D-day the Canadians had more than a quarter of a million men overseas. General Crerar's army contains Dutch and Polish units, as well as two Highlander divisions which more than make up for the number of Canadians fighting in Italy...