Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life And Tragic Death Of The Favorite Kennedy Daughter - Plot & Excerpts
Too much had happened in the violent and bloody month since he and Kick had said good-bye. The 5th Coldstream Battalion had arrived in Normandy three days before General Sir Bernard Montgomery, the commander of Allied ground forces in Normandy, opened a major offensive, Operation Epsom, with the objective of taking the German-occupied city of Caen. The Guardsmen were assigned to hold defensive positions at St. Manvieu and Marcelet, to the west of Caen. Just before dawn on a rain-drenched July 2, Billy and other members of the No. 4 Company, of which he was second in command, went out to patrol a patch of scrubby countryside where the air was thick with the nauseating stench of dead cattle. The men had to withdraw when they came under heavy fire from the Germans, but so far they’d suffered only two minor casualties. As the day wore on the rain persisted, but the frequent shelling that the English soldiers had already learned to anticipate as a daily fact of life seemed somehow less intense at the moment.
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