Invasion of France Opens a New War Chapter
A historic Allied invasion marks the start of France's fresh resistance as Gen Eisenhower signals D Day. Allied forces, including Americans from Maine to California, British and Canadian troops, breach the Atlantic Wall aiming at Berlin.
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Warsaw
Dunkerque
Paris
France
Alides
Dwight D. Fisenhower
Maine
California
Lafayette
Paul Reynaud
Stash
Atlantic Wall
Berlin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
England
Ships Double As Hospitals
Ships converted into floating medical units feature 3,000 medical items and onboard blood refrigerators to treat Allied wounded. Operating tables secure to floors with straps and waterproof blankets aid patient care, aiming to save lives after European shore landings.
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Dudley
Allies Storm Fortress Walls in Coastal Defense Buildup
Allied troops assault a vast German Atlantic wall from Norway to the Pyrenees. Rommel and Rundstedt pledged to defend, with steel, concrete fortifications, minefields, swamps, anti tank obstacles, and explosive nets. Swedish reports note sensitive mines and magnetic fuzes aimed at paratroopers.
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Europe
Rommel
Atlantic Wall
Norway
Ralph E. Heinzen
France
Germany
Rhine
Hendaye
Hague
Netherlands
Petsamo
Finland
Picardy
Somme River
Siegfried Line
Mediterranean
Pyrenees
Alps
Nho Muir, JR
United Press
Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Trondheim
Biarritz
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt
Atlantic
Maginot Line
Nat von Rundstedt
Stockholm
Matching Wits With Vaunted Fox of Desert
Allied invasion planners spar with Field Marshal Erwin Rommel the Desert Fox as he directs defenses from Norway to the Pyrenees. The piece traces Rommel’s career from Gestapo to tank warfare author and notes his 1940s blitz countered by Eisenhower and Montgomery as Allied invasion plans unfold.
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Malcolm Muir
United Press
Erwin Rommel
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Germany
Atlantic
Norway
Pyrenees
Kurt Gerd von Rundstedt
Nikolaus von Palkenhorst
Hermann von Mannstein
Rommel
Gestapo
Potsdam
Wiener Neustadt
Poland
France
el Alamein
Superman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Vast Supplies Sent to Isles
A U S Army Service of Supply complex in Britain became a vast secondary economy supporting invasion prep. The article notes orthopedic shoe shops, an airplane plant, tank silhouettes on tracks, a bazooka remodelling shop, seagoing jeeps, and an orthopedic shoe factory turning out over 200 pairs weekly by January 1943.
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London
U.P
Europe
U. S. Army Service of Supply
Great Britain
U. S. Army
Seattle
Wichita
Transportation Corps
Howard L. Fleming
Olney, Til
Lester H. Leonard
San Francisco
Tony Mastrocova
Endicott
N. Y
George C. O'Leary
Buffalo
Irvin W. Cowdrey
Richmond
John R. Wilson
Centralia
William J. Stewart
Columbia
S. O
Victor M. Adams
Miami
Fla
Four Years Ago Disaster Struck Dunkirk Evacuation Recalled
The narrator recalls the Dunkirk evacuation four years later as British destroyers ferried survivors to safety. He notes the battered troops and weary guards, the ships crowded with wounded and intact soldiers, and the resolve of engineers and veterans amid a sea of war memories.
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London
U.P
Dunkirk
Guvnor
Worcester
Dover
Channel
K. Re
France
Britany
Wnborn
Brest
Malo
Dov
Dover-Calais
Britain
England
51St Highland Division
San Valerie
Wehrmacht
Royal Air Force
Maginot Line
Paris
Hitler
Britanny
St. Aubin d’Aubigne
el Alamein
Tunis
Sicily
Tealy
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Belgium
Napoleon
Low Countries
Marshal Foch
Marshal Petain
Petain
Churchill
Quueror
Vichy
America
Congress
United States
House of Commons
Bordeaux
Madagascar
Algiers
Martinique
St. Pierre
A Tau Potter Leven
Laval
Cuntifaoe
St. Nagaire
Touloin
Eisenhower
French North Africa
Frince
Charles de Gaulle
French National Committee
North
Africa
Marshal
de Gaulle
U. S
Waters
United
Navy
Salem
Ore
Oregon
Port Oxford
Wolff Creek
Portland
Vasion
Spain
Fedinburgh
Manchester
North Sea
Norwegian Sea
Italy
Sweden
LITH
Mediterranean Sea
Isles
Frank Fisher
Engineers Replacement Training Center
Edward W. Brattir
Clearfield
Utah
Clearfield Naval Supply Depot
Oakland
Cal
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