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...deter a hefty, partially crippled, 34-year-old Belgian mining machine manufacturer named Fernand du Moulin. Around 10 o'clock one night last week Fernand left a champagne party given by his wife, anointed himself with grease and took to the choppy waters off France's Cap Gris Nez. He struck out with a powerful breast stroke, stopping now & then to tread water and consume 20 fortifying pints of soup and coffee doled out by a friend in a fishing boat. En route, carrier pigeons released by the escort winged their way back to France to keep...
...since the great days of Itchy Guk, the famed Eskimo who was probably the most remarkable Channel swimmer of them all,* had there been such heavy human traffic in the choppy waters between Dover and Cap Gris Nez. Everyone seemed to want to swim the Channel. Last week a clothing salesman from Cuba and a Dutch housewife tried, both for the second time, and failed. Shirley May France of Massachusetts (TIME, Aug. 8) still hesitated before making the big plunge. In this crowd of fame-seekers, a short, stocky Yorkshire schoolboy named Philip Mick-man went almost unnoticed. But last...
...failed twice before. Daubed with grease, Philip entered the forbidding water at Cap Gris Nez. Buffeted by squalls and strong tides, he was urged again & again by his father in a rowboat to give up. But Philip would not. Twenty-three hours and 48 minutes after the start, he waded ashore at Kingsdown, near Deal...
...Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year-old Dutch housewife, Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel, tackled the 21-mile stretch from France's Cap Gris Nez. Protected against the cold water by 25 lbs. of heavy grease, Mrs. van Rijsel ran into high seas 1½ miles from Dover, and was pulled from the water exhausted...
Double Nightmare. The generals got very little information from agents in Britain. (Hitler may have gotten more and kept it from them.) Hitler himself made only one trip to the Channel coast. He went to Cap Gris Nez one day in 1940, looked over the Channel toward Britain, and went home. The "Atlantic Wall" was never a system of continuous fortifications; Rundstedt called its defenses "absurdly overrated." There was no real cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the ground forces, the generals told Liddell Hart. And the Battle of the Bulge, which seemed so powerful an assault to the Allies...