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Rockets and Planes. Through glasses we can see every detail of Red Beach. A line of LCLs has now moved up nearer, to deliver rocket fire. As the minutes tick by, the warship barrage is rising to a steady drumming. The concussions are uncomfortable. A very young, very redheaded ensign staring at the beach mutters: "If I was a Jap in there and I wasn't scared, I'd get scared...
Married. Nancy Dabney Roosevelt, 21, daughter of Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt; and Ensign William Eldred Jackson, 25, only son of Supreme Court rustice Robert H. Jackson; in Cold Spring Harbor...
West: Under the Red Ensign...
...June 6, Canada's divisions stormed ashore under the Red Ensign. Originally designed to identify Canadian ships at sea is Britain's standard merchant ma rine flag with the Union Jack in the quarter of a red field - to which is added Canada's coat of arms in the fly. The Canadian beach was at Bernierès-sur-Mer, between Caen and the Orne River. There, for the first time in history, Canada fought under her own national flag...
...Thursday, the Tigers, previously blanked twice by Tony Hoekstra, jumped on him for eight runs in the second to thump the Browns, 10 to 5, and move into the finals against Ensign Bill Cousins' aggregation Tuesday...