Word: d-day
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That would come later. The Japs still had guns, still had fight in them even after 10,000 tons of shells and bombs had ripped their two-and-a-half-year-old defenses. By noon of D-day the marines had tanks ashore, had fought their way inland through charred and tattered palm groves, using grenades, rifles, machine-guns, light field pieces & flamethrowers...
...Virginia major's gallantry was almost a legend to men of the 29th Infantry Division. On D-day he had whisked across the beach ahead of his men, alone had silenced a machine gun. At La Madeleine he and his men had fought their way to a surrounded battalion, then had found themselves surrounded. Together the two battalions stood off the Germans for 36 bitter hours, finally broke out toward Saint...
...take Walter Graebner. As top man for TIME & LIFE in London, Graebner had to stay behind on D-day to supervise our overall news coverage for you-but when he finally crossed the Channel on D-plus-22, he had a unique chance to see just what was happening all along the front...
Sabotage. Their pre-D-day record was impressive enough. In the past year they had performed 300 sabotage acts a month (they had lost 500 executed a month by the Germans in reprisal). But from D-day on, their goal was in sight, their activities carefully coordinated with the Allied attack...
Again the Luftwaffe. U.S. medium bombers hit oil dumps in France near Chartres. Argentan and Cerences. The R.A.F.'s new Typhoons, firing rockets that hit with the wallop of a six-inch naval shell, blasted storage tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...