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...Power. Heading General Dwight Eisenhower's "precision offensive" was tight-lipped Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, commanding the British First Army of vengeful veterans of Flanders and Dunkirk. Second in command was Major General Charles Ryder, commanding auxiliary U.S. assault troops and motorized infantry. R.A.F. Spitfires, equipped with a tank-busting cannon, and Brigadier General James Doolittle's planes covered the advance in the air. Offshore were units of the British Fleet...
...this controversy between professionals and amateurs as to the wisdom of an immediate second front, doesn't anyone give thought to the fact that the entire British war machine was built after Dunkirk, and while the nation was fighting for its life ? If the Few-to-Whom-so-Many-owe-so-Much had waited for the supplies and reinforcements that they needed at that moment, Great Britain wouldn't be singing There'll Always Be an England today...
...wrote a life of Christ. An Ulsterman, born in County Donegal, he was marked for the clergy. He went into the Army, but the mark of his religious upbringing is still deep in him. His hero is Oliver Cromwell, who also smote his enemies and praised God. At Dunkirk Bernard Montgomery told his men: "If you run out of ammunition, tear the enemy to pieces with your hands." Fittingly, he reads the lessons at church parades...
Gracie frankly admits that she is out to restake herself. Always openhanded, since Dunkirk she had contributed most of her time and talent to British War Relief. Radio is a way to "get some bills paid." Observes Gracie of her potent earning powers: "I'm 42 [she is 44] and that's nearly middleaged, but I hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs...
...flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk he was given the job of organizing England for the defense of her soil from the invasion that appeared about to engulf...