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DIED. JERRY GOLDSMITH, 75, prolific composer of movie scores and television theme music; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. In a career that spanned a half-century, his music adorned everything from film epics like Patton and The Sand Pebbles to TV classics like Gunsmoke and The Twilight Zone. He could be fast, writing the haunting score for Chinatown in just 10 days, or experimental, using mixing bowls for the score of Planet of the Apes. His creepy music for The Omen won a 1976 Oscar...
...Calais, only 27 miles from Dover, where Rommel and his men sat waiting? Allied bombers kept shelling the Calais area as though softening it for an invasion, even building dummy landing craft in southeastern England, rubber tanks, fake warehouses and barracks. In Operation Fortitude, Lieut. General George Patton commanded a fake Army group, sending fake messages about the phony invasion to come. It all made so much more sense than doing what no invaders had managed in centuries: crossing the 100 miles to the Normandy beaches and plunging ashore; so only 70,000 German troops were waiting there...
...761ST TRAINED AS A PUBLIC RELATIONS GESTURE TO PLACATE THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WHAT CONVINCED GENERAL GEORGE PATTON TO FINALLY LET THESE GUYS FIGHT...
...Patton was desperate for tankers. The 761st had the luxury of training for over two years and knew strengths and weaknesses of the German equipment. If it hadn't been for their extensive training, they would have been chewed up like the rest of the tank units...
...QUESTIONS: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Patton, war and writing history...