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Eisenhower stayed behind, alone, as his commanders rushed out to transmit the order that commenced Operation Overlord, the invasion of Western Europe. His own duty was done for the day. He went down to a pier in Portsmouth to watch British soldiers board their landing craft. The biggest fleet in history -- 59 convoys strung over 100 miles, led by six battleships, 22 cruisers and 93 destroyers -- set sail toward the beaches of Normandy between 60 and 100 miles away...
...Nelson went away -- went back to Lincoln, Nebraska, in fact, after a brief tour with the newspaper. A year passed, and then the other day a Fleet Street reporter took a run at McCarthy at Luby's Cafeteria, where he sat with his coffee and his soup and his periodicals. "I'm sorry, son," said McCarthy, "but you're asking me to do something I just...
...train used by Burke and Tsrrigna is one of the new models being introduced by the MBTA as it moves to replace its 87-train fleet. The new 1800 Silverbird-models cost $1 million each...
Many buyers look to current and former military and KGB officers, trapped in a system that can no longer afford to pay or house them adequately. At least one admiral has intentionally scuttled submarines in order to sell them for scrap. Ranking officers of the Russian fleet at Liepaja naval base in Latvia temporarily immobilized ships last year, when they sold the base's stores of fuel to international traders...
When Eric Nurse, 52, first went to sea with the fishing fleet from the port of Champneys East in Newfoundland, the cod seemed plentiful enough to last forever. Like his father and grandfather before him, Nurse returned year after year to the frigid, treacherous North Atlantic to harvest the rich waters of the Grand Banks, one of the world's most productive fishing areas...