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...ready to spring across the Channel into German-occupied France. Some of the more than 5,000 ships accompanied by an additional 4,000 small craft of the invasion armada had already put to sea. On that June morning in 1944, screaming winds rattled the windows of the British naval headquarters near Portsmouth, where the D-day commanders were meeting. The rain, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower later recalled, lashed down in "horizontal streaks." A Royal Air Force meteorologist, however, cautiously predicted clearing skies for the next day, June 6. Eisenhower conferred with the generals and admirals gathered around...
...credibility as Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces because he avoided military service during the Vietnam War. But if past anniversaries of the invasion are any indication, the emotion of the moment will carry the day. "That war," Clinton told the , graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, "marked the turning point of our century, when we joined with our Allies to stem a dark tide of dictatorship, and to start a flow of democracy and freedom that continues to sweep the world." While peace is far from universal even in Europe, Western Europe is more...
...accident," says Army Colonel Will Hatcher, who is helping to launch the program. "But we want to go back and check." For several months the task force has been examining child deaths at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado and at hospitals at the Bremerton naval base in Washington and Travis Air Force Base in California...
With his legs gone, Puller in an instant became half a man. It seemed virtually certain that he would leave his pregnant wife a widow. The triage experts in Danang did their heroic part, however, as, later, did the surgeons, corpsmen and therapists at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital...
...printing. With the aid of ink-jet technology and the research services of Congressional Quarterly Inc., we have enabled each individual subscriber in the 50 states to read how his or her U.S. Senators voted in last week's controversial approval of full, four-star retirement for Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank B. Kelso 2nd. It is intended as the first of many customized congressional features through which we hope to engage TIME's readers more closely in the democratic process...