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Between now and DDay, each correspondent will be given his assignment in secret. Here are a few of the veterans on our team...
...Germans, it fell most heavily on two field marshals, able hoodlum Erwin Rommel and able Junker Gerd von Rundstedt. They were hard at work on their checkup of garrisons, driving their staffs to perfect the plans for the 50-odd divisions they will have in the West on Dday...
...such engineering equipment as ten-and 14-ton road rollers, nine-ton bulldozers, pneumatic air compressors, concrete mixers, oxygen and acetylene generating plants, 100,000 telephone poles, hundreds of miles of wire, landing mats, huts, railroad ties, wheelbarrows-all ready and at hand for Dday...
...pounding of Kwajalein began two months before the attack. In 17 raids by Army and Navy bombers the atoll was plastered with heavy bombs. The actual bombardment from the sea began three days before DDay. Hour after hour battleships and cruisers poured in thousands of rounds of 6-to-16-in. explosives. Roi and adjacent Namur rattled under the weight of 5,000 tons of naval shells...