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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Supreme Commander | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...either fears his fate too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Monty's Message | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...booming crescendo of Allied guns in Normandy and central Italy might sound to many European musicians like Beethoven's "Fate knocking at the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fate at the Door | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Said Secretary Stimson: "It is on the shoulders of these men, and their comrades in the U.S. who are scheduled for overseas deployment, that the fate of the final phase of overall strategy-the period of decisive action-depends." In the U.S. are 1,300,000 trained men held as reserves, "ready to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MANPOWER: On Whom the Fate Depends | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Unable to give her speech because of the constant interruption of cheers and snatches of song, Carrie finally gave up in disgust, abandoning the Harvard boys to their horrible fate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carrie Nation Cursed Vice At Blue-Book Sweat-Shop | 6/9/1944 | See Source »

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