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...struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship was singled out by a U-boat and sunk soon after clearing port. Another ship...
...While we were still out at sea on board the invasion fleet," he mused, "we heard a radio broadcast on which Wendell Willkie was praising Mongomery's defeat of Rommel at El Alemein as the great turning point of the war." The historian indicated, however, that Willkie made that broad statement while unaware of the approaching landings which were to create what Professor Morison terms one of the major climaxes in the world conflict...
Werner Schwalb, a staunch Nazi for most of his 31 years, joined the German Army in 1937. As a tank gunner he won an Iron Cross in the invasion of France. He was with Rommel in North Africa. Then he was captured, and that finished him as a soldier. But not as a Nazi...
...voiced is that Lincoln's trousers are much too nattily creased. Accordingly, before one recent performance, while top-hatted "Secretary Seward" squatted crosslegged, eating rice with chopsticks, "President Lincoln" went busily to work rumpling his trousers. Then President Lincoln-who in real life looks more like Field Marshal Rommel-put on foot pads and high-heeled shoes to shamble onstage, a real, live six-footer...
...Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...