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World War II: Between 1941 and 1944, while some of his West Point classmates were winning general's stars, Colonel Van Fleet trained the 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division; on Dday, one of the Army s older combat colonels he led his regiment to the landing on Utah Beach in Normandy. For Colonel Van Fleet, battle was the true test. Within seven months he was a major general, commander first of the 4th, then the 90th Divisions. He fought the 90th across the flooded Moselle against heavy German counterattacks. By March 1945, he was commander...
...deputy chief to Ike Eisenhower's P.W. branch in 1944, Jackson worked his staff around the clock in London's Inver-esk House on the touchiest campaign of the war: rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...
...Hope. This time Jackson was aiming at no known Dday, but the scope of his operations was broader, the stakes higher. By spring, RFE's voice would be amplified by a second transmitter in Munich, its production department shifted to Europe to capitalize swiftly on fast-moving intelligence. Beyond that, the committee already was godfather to a group of National Councils, one for each conquered nation, composed of exiled intellectuals, artists and political leaders. These kept'a close watch on their respective homelands, stood ready, in a pinch, to act as governments-in-exile...
...landings at Inchon found themselves back on LSTs and assault transports. Reinforced by the newly arrived 3rd Infantry Division, they were slated to make another amphibious landing-this time at Wonsan on Korea's east coast. But on Oct. 10, just before what was to have been Dday, troops of the R.O.K. I Corps, driving overland, captured Wonsan ahead of schedule. The war had moved so fast that the big knockout assault scheduled to be commanded by Major General Edward M. Almond was not needed...
Lloyds of London last week totted up casualties among correspondents in Korea* (eight killed, six wounded, two missing, one captured) and decided the risks had outrun the rates which have been in effect since Dday, 1944. It boosted the insurance premium from 5% to 10% for accidental death for newsmen in Korea...