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Northern Negroes had plenty of chance to observe the historical political practices of the South. Said a Negro noncom: "On D-day there was all kinds of talk about democracy. But two days later white men with guns refused to allow Negroes to vote in the Columbus (Ga.) city primary...
...parachuted from the sky oyer Normandy on D-day was a 29-year-old Anglican chaplain, George Edward Maule Parry. He was with the British 6th Airborne Division. Last week War Correspondent Leonard Mosley, who was with the same division, told what happened after that...
...Lutes and his staff began plotting in August 1943. They had listed cement, steel, tools, machinery needed to rebuild the port of Cherbourg. All the stuff was loaded onto a small fleet of ships, some of which were complete machine shops, and held in readiness in U.S. ports. Before D-day the little fleet started for France, was on hand to move into Cherbourg the day the port fell...
...first D-day newsreels reached U.S. theaters on D-day plus nine. They are the collective effort of U.S., British and Canadian Army, Navy, Air Force and newsreel cameramen. They have caught some of the finest, most moving, most revealing shots ever made...
Accomplishment. Says Thomas Mann (who was 69 on D-day): "I have often been asked what it actually was that made me turn to this remote and out-of-the-way subject. . . ." Two of his own answers: his reading of Goethe, who once thought of writing the Joseph story himself; Mann's lifelong interest in Egypt...