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...After that, the bombers were supposed to provide close support for the invaders as they moved over the beaches. But shortly before the invasion got under way, White House orders went out limiting the B-26 force to two pre-invasion strikes. The first ineffectual sortie, two days before Dday, set off rumblings at the United Nations, so Kennedy called off the second strike, scheduled for the morning of the invasion. After the invaders scrambled ashore, Kennedy ordered the second strike reinstated, but it was too little and way too late...
Dusty Films. Wolper's recent Dday, for example, was a one-hour compilation of film material made by cameramen on both sides. It contained shots of awful immediacy. A soldier comes out of the breakers onto Omaha Beach. He is hit by a bullet, sits down slowly with his legs apart, like a child about to build a castle of sand, then falls backwards to die. An other shot showed Ike sitting on the running board of an old car in North Africa, chomping on a sandwich, while Franklin Roosevelt sat on the seat above him, also eating...
Gavin was admitted to the frosty presence of President de Gaulle as often as a U.S. ambassador might expect to be, and French newspapers never failed to point out that his first visit to France was on Dday, by jump with his 82nd Airborne Division. Last week France's most influential newspaper, Le Monde, warmly praised "his profound learning, his total honesty, his devotion to his duty...
...Marshall (415 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $6.50). "Slam" Marshall, famed war correspondent for the Detroit News and a retired brigadier general (Army Reserve), here undertakes to tell what happeaed when the paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions dropped behind enemy lines in the dead of night on Dday. Most of them got lost. They fought or drowned in swamps that air reconnaissance had failed to reveal. They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes. Old Soldier Marshall frequently becomes...
...Loving You As I Do." When World War II came. Thurmond put down his gavel. As a lieutenant colonel in the Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division, Thurmond went into Normandy by glider on Dday, was injured when his glider crashed, stayed in action until his men had secured their objective; his gallantry won him a Bronze Star. Today. Thurmond is a major general in the Army Reserve...