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Wrong-Way Pigeon. Part of their professional grief was the helpless frustration of losing hundreds of good shots. In the rush of Dday, many exposures were ruined, many negatives lost. One photographer who landed with paratroopers lost one movie and two still cameras while retreating under fire, barely managed to save another still camera to record the first few days' action. Severely wounded, another was forced to destroy all his exposed films when capture became inevitable...
Despite such setbacks, the 165th established a high record of battle performance from its start. Chiefly responsible for its early record was the company commander, Captain Herman V. Hall, who lost a leg on the Normandy beachhead. When he was evacuated to England on the night of Dday. Captain Hall, mindful of his job, took back the outfit's negatives for speedy distribution...
...solution (by British engineers) was ready by Dday. Sixty old ships (including H.M.S. Centurion, one of the earliest dreadnoughts, and the French battleship Courbet) followed the invasion armada. They were scuttled to form five breakwaters along the French coast, to provide immediate anchorage...
...hard a task. But experienced generals like leathery Courtney Hodges knew differently. By now even the lowliest of his slugging G.I.s, up against the enemy among his earthworks, his forests, his staggered rows of pillbox forts, knew that the job was probably one of the toughest since Dday...
...miracle could be stated in simple, arithmetical terms: in the first 100 days after Dday, over 1,000,000 long tons of supplies (700,000 items) and 100,000 vehicles poured into France. What was more, these supplies closely followed the slashing, wheeling, speeding columns of Allied tanks and infantry via plane, truck, pipeline and railroad...