Word: dday
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...True Glory (Dday...
...film had to reduce some 6,500,000 feet of shots to theatrical coherence (it runs 84 minutes), and to outline clearly the history of one of the world's major campaigns: that which began at Southampton and ended in Berlin. Moreover, starting two months after Dday, they had to foam along the course with their noses at the withers of history, constantly forced to revise (first there was an ending in Paris, then one at the Rhine). They also took it on themselves to make the whole job an illustration of teamwork among the men of many services...
...Babies. In Torrington, Conn., the Otto Walds would have little trouble remembering their children's anniversaries: Lena's on Pearl Harbor Day, Ruth's on Normandy DDay, Kenneth's on V-E Day and Franklin's on Jap surrender...
...communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
Radar was chiefly responsible for defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...