Montgomery Foresees Invasion Fight On Beaches
Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding Allied assault forces, told about 100 front line correspondents in London that Allied help from America made the continent invasion possible and predicted the Germans would mount their strongest defense on the beaches. He said the invasion would be rough but succeed and looked forward to meeting Erwin Rommel again on the field.
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James McGlincy
Allied Expeditionary Force
Britain
U.P
Bernard L. Montgomery
America
Montgomery
London
Germany
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Rommel
Moscow
Mediterranean
D Day Set Early This Year by Wes Gallagh
Wes Gallagh announces an early D Day observance plan for the year. Details specify event timing and local participation in a community ceremony.
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Wes Gallagh
Eisenhower chose D-Day date after wide wartime planning
Across Allied staffs in 1944, Eisenhower settled on D-Day after months of weather, logistics, and air power analysis. Generals weighed tides, darkness, and seas while weather experts projected conditions for landings in Africa, Sicily, Salerno, and western Europe.
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Eisenhower
Morocco
D-Day
Sicily
Salerno
Fisenhower
Invasion Begins As Allied Armies Land In France
The official communique announces Allied armies began landing on the northern coast of France with naval and air support. Col. R Ernest Dupuy reads the message from SHAEF at 7 32 AM GMT. The broadcast confirms the long awaited invasion news.
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Associated Press
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
United States
Col
R. Ernest Dupuy
Eisenhower
Dupuy
United Nations
France
Britain
Greenwich
Reader's Digest Condenses Holmes Biography and More
The June Reader's Digest features a 22 page condensation of Catherine Drinker Bowen’s Yankee from Olympus about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club May selection. It also offers personal advice for couples and parenting along with essays on race relations in the South and tone in communication.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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