Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derrières...
...School for Overseas Administration, of which the new course is a part, will head the school. The course will last six months, with headquarters located in the Germanic Museum. Assisting Professor Friedrich as Deputy and Associate Directors of CATS are Morle Fainsod, associate professor of Government (Captain, Spec. Res.), and Colonel John Perkins, respectively...
...town of Saint-Tropez, with tall pink and ocher houses overlooking the protected bay where in peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...center of the new line Bradley had already exploited his speed to get a frontal offensive going, headed east. He had pushed armored and infantry columns out of Rennes to the highway junction of Laval, 148 miles from Paris. Other columns swept down from Fougères to Mayenne, 137 miles from the capital. To the south another had cut to the east...