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...will be General Charles de Gaulle and his Algiers Liberation Committee, armed with extensive blueprints for a mid-invasion and postwar French Government. On the other side: none other than that veteran of defeat and collaboration, 87-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. In Vichy's twilight, the tarnished star of Pétain is rising...
...would [privately] assure the Germans of their complete loyalty . . . appease public opinion . . . [and] provide a smoother transition should there be a successful U.S. landing. . . . Thus Pétain would no longer be regarded as the man who had wrecked the Republic; he would just have kept it in the twilight because of circumstances until he himself was ready of his own free will to restore democratic institutions...
...mooching along in company with two landing craft (infantry and tanks) some 30 miles south of Empress Augusta Bay. One of the PT's three engines had burned out, but she could still keep up with her consorts. A gorgeous sunset was draining from the clouds and twilight was closing in. As TIME Correspondent William Chickering later got the story...
...Platoon of Company "B" defeated the 2nd Platoon Friday in a twilight seven-inning softball game by the score of 9-5. Lt. Ivan Miller tossed for the victors and Lt. Francis T. Sharkey for the opponents. The teams were managed respectively by Lts. Warren F. Millius and Henry N. Schoenfield. Highlighting the game were the frequent altercations that developed between the umpire, Lt. Joe Redding, and Lt. Sharkey pitcher for the 2nd Platoon. Umpire players and spectators were unperturbed by the pitcher's picturesque words and actions, however, for it was common knowledge that Lt. Sharkey at one time...
...farmhouse, Mrs. Liebers had been busy every minute. She fed the chickens and did the afternoon milking, picked green apples for applesauce, dug and peeled enough potatoes for supper, shelled peas fresh from the vine. At 9:30, when the last of the twilight faded and the workers came in, she had the fourth meal of the day waiting...