When a soldier spoke effectively: “Lafayette, we are here!”

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Notes

After this article was scheduled for publication in the Journal, General Eisenhower saw a reference to the subject in the newspapers and wrote the author as follows: ALLIED FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Office of the Commander‐in‐Chief, 5 July, 1943. Dear Mr. Gilmer: I have read with interest your letter as published in the New York Herald Tribune. The history as you give it does not differ from my own knowledge. In any event, it was a grand phrase, and I only wish we had one that would tell as succinctly the story of the Allied occupation of North Africa and succeeding events. Sincerely yours, Dwight D. Eisenhower—Ed.