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...Inside. The French also made active war. Whole chunks of territory were under complete patriot control. Known German losses since Dday: 3,000 killed, 500 wounded, 473 prisoners. The French themselves lost 389 killed, 33 wounded and an uncertain number of prisoners...
FORTUNE Editor Joseph Jones, in London on Dday, visited Normandy soon after Cherbourg fell. Last week he returned to the U.S. with a firsthand report on the political realities of that fragment of France. His story...
Brigadier Lord Lovat, tall, tough, handsome leader of British Commando troops, was back in England last week, a bit bunged up from the Normandy fighting, and correspondents at last could tell the story of how Lovat and his men kept a promise on Dday...
...want you to fight your way across country, reach the bridges we are holding and pass through to aid us in fighting the Nazis in the country beyond-and I want you to be there on time. You land on the beaches some time after 8 a.m. on Dday. I want you to be at the bridges by 12:15, four and a quarter hours later. Do you think...
...invasion fleet were some 300 private boats of from 275 to 3,500-ton capacity which had to be loaded long before Dday, tagged for specific landing areas and kept ready to sail. There had to be a loading-priority plan so that supplies could be unloaded as needed in those first critical and tumultuous hours...