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...first book about the invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the fall of Cherbourg, represents a remarkable publishing feat. Largely written in France, it was assembled and refurbished during a fortnight in London, dispatched to the publishers piecemeal. The last chapters reached the U.S. by courier less than three weeks before publication...
...Charles Christian Wertenbaker, 44, is chief military correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Shrewd, affable, tweedy "Wert," a seasoned reporter and able writer whose previous books have ranged from Boojum (a college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...
...news came through that the Allies had opened another front in Europe, they were making bets here in the office that TIME'S Foreign News Editor John Osborne, last reported in Florence, would somehow manage to get in on General Wilson's new show. (He did-on D-day Osborne flew from Italy in a 6-25, had a front-row seat for the pre-invasion bombings-was last reported far inland with our advancing armies...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...