By JORGE MILIAN | Palm Beach Post | Published: January 25, 2021 BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (Tribune News Service) Seventy-five years ago, Boynton Beach s Lee Weiss played a leading role in shifting World War II to the Allies favor. Only thing was that Weiss, who turned 100 years young on Dec. 24, didn t know it until decades later. Weiss served as a radio operator in the U.S. Army s 3103 Signal Service Battalion that was employed in an elaborate ruse to make the German high command believe the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France would take place in Pas de Calais, not Normandy. Weiss job was to send coded messages creating the illusion of a large-scale troop buildup for the Calais assault. The deception worked so well that the German leadership kept vital units in Calais months after the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Seventy-five years ago, Lee Weiss played a leading role in shifting World War II to the Allies favor — but Weiss, who turned 100 years young on Dec. 24, didn t know it until decades later.
American railroad workers in specially formed units labored to keep men and matériel rolling forward after D-Day.
Here s What You Need to Know: Combat engineers and railway workers recorded a monumental achievement in the summer of 1944.
Historian Christian Wolmar concludes that the two world wars could not have been fought to such devastation without military railways, in his book Engines of War. In wars, from the Crimean to the arrival of the jet engine, railways were a dominant technology. Consequently, the military that best employed its railways to transfer fresh troops and supplies to the point of greatest need usually prevailed.
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/01/21
French authorities are continuing regular clearances of migrant tent camps in Calais and Dunkirk, despite snow and freezing conditions. A volunteer from the charity Care4Calais told InfoMigrants that pressure by the French police unit, the CRS , is continuing to build.
Early in the new year, Paul drove from the UK into France in a car loaded up with sleeping bags and tents, destined for Calais. Crossing the border for the first time since Brexit, he was slightly nervous about what to expect, but officials simply checked that he had been tested for COVID, stamped his British passport, and waved him through.
It is difficult to deny how from a geographical point of view world trade develops through the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Guinea, the North Sea, Alaska and the Caribbean. It is equally difficult to deny that the main hubs through which global trade transits are – as has been pointed out several times on these pages – the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca and the Cape of Good Hope.