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Seventy-five percent of Allied ground forces in the theater were British, as were four out of every five naval vessels and half the air forces.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
The German Army Group B, commanded initially by Rommel, then by von Kluge,m had committed two veteran armies, the Seventh and Fifth Panzer, some forty divisions (600,000 men), and 1,500 tanks to the battle. The Allies deployed four armies, also totaling about forty divisions, 600,000 men, and 3,000 tanks.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
That Eisenhower survived the twelve-hour hiatus between the initial attack and the first accurate diagnosis was a testament to his remarkable constitution. At sixty-four, Ike weighed 172 pounds, only seven pounds more than when he graduated from West Point. His blood pressure was a reasonable 140/80 and his pulse averaged sixty beats per minute. He
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As the commander of all American forces in the European theater, Eisenhower met daily with one or more of the British chiefs of staff, or with Lieutenant General Sir Hastings (“Pug”) Ismay, Churchill’s personal chief of staff. He saw Churchill several times a week, often at a private lunch, and was occasionally invited to spend the weekend at
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When Colonel Gubbins sailed from Glasgow to Norway on 4 May with his Independent Companies, one of his two intelligence officers was Quintin Riley, whose earlier attempt to come to Norway with the 5th Scots Guards had been aborted, and the other was Riley’s good friend and future brother-in-law Captain Andrew Croft. The two men were both veterans
... See moreNicholas Rankin • Ian Fleming's Commandos
But the heroic stand of the U.S. 30th Division outside Mortain, which Collins called “one of the outstanding small-unit actions of World War II”75—combined with the round-the-clock bombardment from the air—forced the Germans to fall back.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
You must remain quiet, still and strong and any involuntary twitch of the cheek might split the mud and cause you to be branded a coward.’