Paratroopers were only to carry their personal weapons; accordingly air support had been carefully prepared. From H — 15 minutes to H, fighters were to attack all enemy posts that could be located by aerial photography of the drop zones. From H to H + one hour, the dropping and regrouping operations
He is slender, knotty, of medium height, and between the cap and the pipe which rarely leaves his lips, the strong hooked nose betrays the man of character just as his gaze, sharp, attentive, the eye of a bird of prey, betrays the man of war. His name is Antoine-Marie-Pierre Charton, he is a lieuten
The Château de Ferney, where Voltaire lived from 1759 until his death in 1778. • DIDIER PLOWY / CENTER DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX / PRESS SERVICE Property of the Center des Monuments Nationaux, the Château de Voltaire is located in Ferney, in Ain, not far from Geneva. Here it is again accessible to
In 1983, famous magician David Copperfield caused a sensation by making New Yorks Statue of Liberty disappear in a live television broadcast. It is curious that almost forty years earlier, in the midst of World War II, another illusionist also carried out a magical feat of great proportions, althoug