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...minutes on Sunday afternoon the guns were silent and even snipers held their fire. Toward the German lines, in the sector east of Saint-Lô on the Normandy front, bustled a U.S. jeep. Behind it followed two ambulances. In them were eight German nurses, captured in Cherbourg, now being returned to the Germans...
Near the German lines, Captain Quentin Roosevelt (son of Brigadier General T. R. Jr.) and Captain Fred Ghercke crawled off the jeep, exchanged salutes with two German officers...
...Germans wheeled stiffly, turned away; the nurses got down and began walking. The jeep bustled back to its lines, the ambulances followed. A few minutes later the big guns thundered again...
Then General de Gaulle came to Isigny and took a queue away from the butcher shop that had just reopened. He got out of his jeep at the edge of town and walked in, and the crowd followed him, cheering. But again the welcome had in it a note of restraint, as if the people were ready to like this new leader and hoped that he would give them cause to do so. They listened in respectful silence as De Gaulle (eld them that he had come to Isigny be cause Isigny had suffered most in a battle that...
...made duck carried Charles de Gaulle from ship to beach. A British-driven jeep bore him inland. The first Frenchmen the General spied were two gendarmes standing on a roadside. The jeep braked sharply. The gendarmes, seeing a French general, came over...