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...Dday, April 30, 1945, the assault waves were composed of Australian infantry. The Thirteenth Air Force mediums, heavies and fighters had been assigned the air combat duty. No other air force-R.A.A.F. or American-was included in the Battle Order...
...Sullivan's right hand in Manila is Commander Byron S. Huie Jr., 40, a former Treasury attorney whose salvage units rescued 2,340 men from the waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their men in easy informality, sometimes have to argue their zealous divers into knocking off work. The strangest fruit they have plucked out of Manila harbor: a Jap ship filled with glass marbles...
Five weeks before Dday, ABSIE (the American Broadcasting Station in Europe) made its debut to the opening bars of Yankee Doodle. Last week, to the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner, it took its leave. ABSIE, operated by OWI and SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Division, had earned an honorable discharge for valiant service, but few Americans had paid it more than passing notice...
...begins with the U.S. Army's defeat on Bataan and ends with its victorious return, is based on actual characters and events. Between defeat and victory the guerrillas, under the command of a U.S. Army colonel (John Wayne), blow up oil fields, steal enemy supplies and finally, on Dday, dynamite a bridge, blockade a road and hold off the Japs until the Army arrives...
...machines of war roared past us, filled with expectant, tense-faced participants in this Dday. In one long block I counted seven jeeps, twelve army trucks, two jammed old busses, four pony carts and a pedestrian-all passing...