European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Itii.tt11.1us 111 it rough lense men in the boats up i us ked in their Helrn Eis. Silently paved that t la St. Ing alive Triin it the idea wave to hit the Heath in a nannies. In some estimates was Libya lev. Uts Hill steeled themselves Iii ill eel their Makel tin ii the germans. A 1m Hever i ame Fust some were so in if in . illion t Are. Anil then the s dropping. lust look. Orm Aiida smoke. I ire i Estinv. I perhaps death. All inc Riml paper s i ing. Ill the training tin1 Luis Lilly i. Ill the wailing wondering till Ilii or die i is Iii ,11111 univ. It a is Over Mil the thing was lieu a they Well humping and Tlam he ing Forward under in Iii i piiunilp.ita-, the . Greeiioiii-s.iiiillho-,i a i. All i, i isl theobal is Hill Sll a Lull Hill ill s.lwil-1 the l i1m my till in i is Bali in ii Vanl the Wali i. Solhi is in Imalle in it in Kink it wat. Stepped. Inu. La Uin their Rte Shinil Iceni . 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At limes i was shool i Al Ever Lahiri Lylial Lew Over me i inn t know what the hell i hit " ii was Halo uly Tenor on some of Oliosi smooth Sandy i iches with one unit had t moved Lorn ird and the Landing i tall lie Hind them milling around like spooked i allele waiting to enter Thi Slaught Rhoose on limn head h the in admins Sull ered i onside Talili losses incl a okeh Roii hand heated Inland. On Gull and sword i u lies the Hulish Usini Spei Armor heal k Sun Poi be Tisil re i Lanc e and moved Toman i snarl by. On Utah i h. The americ an lit in i a Ukly look i on Lrol with Only lib jail i casualties Omaha h was the , and in look All Day Tor lev yank Island hit in divslnri1 Oil Llie Sand and rocks and up the lil Titis Inlo a a inn. Strip of Mimi i Lim the . At i Oil he i fat Thi Leann by stated ill Lei l of sheer c hit tour Luis to Hudi i Ilia Iii Len Erin ans i u.irdir., Al it Erol heavy 151111 that could have p1 Ivi in Hanoi on the i indies it ,i and Utah lint the nuns i n i there . Movers Ous Banuet Trifi Verp ohs it is. Brr a Lial Lions hover of or Imit is Allivie ital Tirl inn j Lurf Rhu Nii of Al on . Inland to save them in i air is the we tired. Well Hefner Dawn on thai . The Arneri an l ill and Llund airborne dim Sions had already lulled in behind tin Beai lies and Sei used alter some Ilin ulv the invasion s Western . As had the i tills Ali airborne div others had i one in in lid soon the Eastern Plank. I he allies bad .11 sieved a stunning Lac tic Al Surprise Liy the end of . Most of the troops Lytal had sailed from Inland would be it Iii ii Iii around in the rubble of the unassailable while All this was Oak on in the vital Tirol Hasi Kommel Rushink Bat k by i a toward Normandy. In would Lake him i Kulil hours unrecoverable. I hey had rehearsed for months Tor Lite invasion but when in i Jim a rigor Morlis of leadership set in the real Lions of ii. German Chain of tout mail was ponderous and confused compounding mistake. I he most t ritual was the failure lot commit powerful i an or reserves e of Normandy to Stem Lite push i rom the beat lies. It was a Rai e against time and if the i an ers had been throw n Forward Imam Diatel military theorists believe the Only Onie might have been vastly Dilu Rint i a plainly Mut it More to slav for the allies. Hul the an it let Ision rested with Adolph i the Sands of Ibe i Bird Reuh were washing Oul irom under him on the Beai lies of Norr Nanry the sell anointed master Mill of tin. German military mat Hine. The Man who started in ill Hel Sihrer. Slept. The Normandy business would have to wait. I Tiller s fidgety subordinates in Hen he Sagaden Weie afraid to Wake him and be melted at for having nudged the situation w tingly w role Albert Speer i me of the i Fuhrer s favo riles. I Liller normally ret lived no news until Afler he had eaten breakfast i Hose Lorg hours took on the unreality of a bad dream Tor the German i Ligh command i he Greal Leader Linalln appeared in Lale morning one of his generals wrote a we stood about in front of maps and t Harts we awaited Willt to element i Tiller s arrival Mil the Del visions he would Lake. As so often happened. I lit Lei Del idea to put on an a t As he tame up to the maps in-1 bin kled in a t Carefree manner and behaved As if this was the Opportunity he had been wailing Lor so Ion to senile at counts with his enemy. He Miri is my Sowers Oil As the allies steadily poured men and steel into the swelling beat it Heads like inoperable Freedom the Sihrer Tou Liln t have been More Oil he should have slaved in lied on ii uhf Heath 1 Pierre i prel remembers Ai t to pling t by w Ingv us am i a Pat k it i Iniko Sunkes from a big Bailie stained c in who wan Letl Lopnow Whit h Way the hell i ans was i Iber Alion not invasion had arrived i run Yjih no a uns blk fail i Tim Bunken like his. 18, /9fl9 sri Pes
