Word: esk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deputy chief to Ike Eisenhower's P.W. branch in 1944, Jackson worked his staff around the clock in London's Inver-esk House on the touchiest campaign of the war: rousing the conquered peoples of Europe, by radio and leaflet, to active support for Dday. As D-day grew closer, they warned of bombings to come, urged the French into effective disobedience of German orders. Finally they sent the organized French underground after important specific targets like bridges and railroad switches...