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Show I j Men Anxious to Move Forward Now that the first phase is over, new jubilance has come over the troops. There is a confidence and enthusiasm among them that didn't exist in England, even though morale mor-ale was high there. They were impatient im-patient to get started and get it over. and now that they've started and feel sort of like veterans, they are ejiger to sweep on through. That first night of landing, when they came ashore In big steel motorized motor-ized invasl6n barges, many funny things happened. One famous officer intended to drive right ashore in a ieep. but they let the folding end ot the barge down too soon and the jeep drove ofT into eight feet of water. wa-ter. Other barges rammed ashore so hard the men jumped off without even getting their feet wet and were soon at their posts. |