Word: dday
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Correspondents quoted a "high" U.S. officer who has closely studied the German operations since Dday: "If Hitler were running the Army now, he would probably be screaming to his generals to retake Aachen by 6 o'clock tonight, instead of allowing them to conduct the highly skilled defense they are making. . . . The use the Germans have made of the past two months to recover, and their remarkable resurgence of military power, show no amateur is now in charge, but shrewd professional soldiers...
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...