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...battles are remarkable for their chaos: at Normandy the deafening noise, sudden explosions, invisible gunfire and jagged beach obstacles turned a carefully orchestrated plan into a thousand extemporaneous fragments. And still, the plan worked. At Gold, Juno and Sword beaches a force drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles Dempsey's British Second Army, and including a Canadian division and Free French, Polish and Dutch troops, moved steadily onto the sand and into the countryside. On the western end at Utah Beach, the U.S. 4th Division waded ashore under protective naval fire and linked up with the paratroopers...
...Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of the U.S. contingent, watched through his binoculars. He feared that "our forces had suffered an irreversible catastrophe" and considered holding back the reinforcements headed for Omaha. That could have spelled disaster for the whole invasion if the Germans had attacked Omaha Beach in force. Then at 1:30 p.m. Bradley received a radio message that the Americans were inching up the bluffs. Another wave of troops rushed in to bolster those on the shore. Said Bradley later: "Every man who set foot on Omaha Beach that day was a hero...
WASHINGTON -- Haitian Lieut. General RAOUL CEDRAS has sent word to U.S. military officials that if the U.S. tries to use force to restore ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide there would be "massive" civilian casualties. U.S. planners fear that Cedras might retreat to the hills and wage a guerrilla war that would erode the American willingness to stay...
...There were people falling around us. I was carrying a good stock of morphine and bulky bandages powdered with sulfonamides. I had instructions not to stop for anybody until we made it to the casino, which the Germans had turned into a bunker. But I made an exception for Lieut. Commander Philippe Kieffer because I thought it was a good idea to hang on to our leader. He took some shrapnel, so I bandaged him quickly and gave him some morphine...
...Gaza, estimated that it would take a week for Palestinian security forces to establish order. There was powerful motivation, since Israel has made further withdrawals in the West Bank conditional on the success of the Gaza-Jericho experiment. "We have an enormous responsibility to protect our achievements," said Lieut. Colonel Munther Irshaid, the P.L.O. officer in charge of municipal affairs in Jericho. "We cannot afford mistakes." On that, Israelis and Palestinians were in total agreement last week...