Word: l6
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Died. Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr., 64, commanding officer of the U.S. troops who liberated Saint-L6 after six long weeks of desperate fighting following their D-day landing at Omaha Beach; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. A Virginia Military Institute graduate, Colonel Johns wrote The Clay Pigeons of Saint-Lõ, which was an account of his World War II experiences. Perhaps his best-known military exploit came at the beginning of the Berlin crisis in 1961, when he successfully led a reinforcement convoy into the barricaded city...