11.   He is amiably matter-of-fact about his derring-do, such as being dropped by glider into the occupied Netherlands during the Allied invasion of Europe.

12.   He was a platoon commander and fought in the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Anzio.

13.   Indeed, within weeks two bombs were dropped on Japan, collapsing the empire and preventing a costly allied invasion of the island.

14.   In the volatile days after the Allied invasion at Normandy, German intelligence officers began hearing a confounding language coming from the American lines of communications.

15.   Just before World War II ended, Alexander was sent to Hawaii to take over another landing craft in preparation for the Allied invasion of Japan.

16.   Much attention was paid to the discussion of various estimates of casualties that would have occurred in an allied invasion of Japan.

17.   President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who commanded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II, was no dummy, but his stump rhetoric was deliberately homespun.

18.   Rick Rodgers approaches Thanksgiving as if he were Eisenhower organizing the Allied invasion of Europe.

19.   She enlisted in the French Army and landed in Normandy after the Allied invasion.

20.   The Allied invasion forces, preceded by parachutists jumping behind German lines just after midnight, hit the beaches at dawn.