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...week before invasion they had been encamped near a Ninth Air Force Station, and their presence was perceptible from afar: they had taken an oath at Christmas time not to bathe until Dday. They cooked their own meals over campfires, slept on the ground without blanket or tent. Familiarized with jujitsu and dirty-fighting tactics devised by thugs of all nations, they feared no man on earth ex cept the few white officers who could lick them in hand-to-hand combat (barring knives, garrotes and guns). Among these were their own jumpmaster, a handsome golden-haired lieutenant who used...
Some 30 hours before H-hour General Eisenhower made the great decision. The moon, the tide, the carefully calculated weather forecasts were favorable. At night, while his staff got out the orders, the General walked alone on the crunching cinder path near his headquarters tent. Deep within himself he wrestled with the feeling he called "boiling over." His fingers rubbed the lucky coins he had rubbed before the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Now began the taut moments that come to every commander after the battle order has been given, and there is no turning back...
Twenty-four hours were left to bid his battle teams a last Godspeed. In the morning "Ike" Eisenhower stood at an English quayside, chinning in his friendly Kansas way with embarking Tommies. In the afternoon he called newsmen into his trailer tent, told them of the great decision. He slouched in his chair, grinned lopsidedly, chain-smoked cigarets, wisecracked a bit, once leaped like an uncoiled spring to exclaim...
From Ireland: "This is a pretty place but nothing compared to Iowa. I am sending you some shamrock I picked. It grows just like our clover. . . ." From Texas: "So this is Texas! You grab a towel, fumble for soap and run out of the tent into the flawless darkness of a Texas morning. And what mornings! Ten million stars an arm's length above you. The air is brisk, often biting. The pungent smell of wood smoke is everywhere. . . ." From Italy: "Here I am in an old Italian house and we have a fire going in the fireplace...
While other circuses have emphasized the virtues of the canvas tent and sawdust ring of late, the most famous of them all has retained the sophisticated elements of the gilded spectacle that draws the crowds of the big Eastern cities...