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...cannon salute, De Gaulle, a paunchy but majestic figure, made his triumphant way through the cheering streets of Milan. The French Tricolor fluttered from windows; there were Arches of Triumph made out of flowers, and at least one made out of cake. At Magenta, De Gaulle inspected the 4th Regiment of the plumed Italian Bersaglieri, whose predecessors fought there a century ago. Near Solferino, he and President Gronchi lunched at a villa where Napeleon III and Victor Emmanuel gloated over a victory banquet that had been set for the Emperor of Austria, who never got around...
Congratulations on your article, "DDay in Europe" [June 8]. It brought back many memories for me. I was a member of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the loist Airborne Division, which dropped in the area of St. Martin-de-Varreville on Dday...
...surprised and quite thrilled when I looked at the picture of General Eisenhower visiting my old regiment prior to our jump into Normandy. I was standing just behind the naval officer when the picture was taken, and I had not yet blackened my face for the jump...
...millhand in a carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., two years as a bond salesman in Wall Street, whose leaders hated his father. Like T.R., he joined the Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division, was followed by Eleanor, a volunteer worker for the Y.M.C.A. Old T.R. liked that. When told that Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law had joined the Y.M.C.A., T.R. said: "How very nice. We are sending our daughter...
...jaunty birthday boy josh and rejoin in top form. From Detroit, Eleanor Roosevelt declared that "the character of my friend was proved on that terrible day [when F.D.R. died] . . . Later I thrilled to watch him grow to greatness." Monsignor L. Curtis Tiernan, chaplain of Artillery Captain Truman's regiment in France in World War I, told how Harry had averted panic, when his men were caught in crossfire, with some "good, plain Missouri talk." Had the chaplain rebuked Harry for his ear-scorching remarks? Replied Tiernan: "Oh, hell no!-sorry." On a pickup from the Chicago wingding, Adlai Stevenson...