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...Governor Warren gets home from his office, he is greeted by his bouncing children as though he had been away for months. At bedtime Papa Warren makes the rounds of all bedrooms for a good night, or if he has turned in early to read in bed, the children troop in to him. The Governor has a study on the third floor, but he rarely uses it. Home, he feels, is for relaxing. He reads a lot of nonfiction...
Taciturn General Pershing never concealed the fact that he considered Marshall the A.E.F.'s outstanding staff officer. Nor was Pershing alone. Many an Allied colleague readily admitted that Marshall, at 37, was author and director of the most outstanding large-scale troop movement of World War I: during two crucial weeks before the Meuse-Argonne operation he shifted more than 500,000 men and 2,700 guns with such perfection that the Germans learned of the maneuver an all-important 24 hours too late...
...hour later, while Allied planes patrolled above and warships lobbed in shells from the sea, two Ducks (amphibious trucks) led the main landing on to Orange Beach. Armed with a newly installed weapon, the Ducks raked the shore, cleared a way for Buffaloes (amphibious tanks), then Alligators (amphibious, troop-carrying tractors...
...full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
...returned to the States on a British troop ship...