PLANNED INVASION
British Mystery General (Received August 3, 10 p.m.) LONDON, August 3. The man whom Mr. Churchill revealed as the planner of the invasion, Lieu-tenant-General Frederick Edgworth Morgan, worked intensively on the plan for three years with two senior assistants and a band of young officers on the floors above a famous London. AVest End store where he had a bed beside his desk and worked seven days a week. He is aged 50, and is one of the war’s mystery men, shy and unknown to the public. He was a subaltern gunner in the last war. . The plan was finally embodied in a book the size of a family Bible, and was accepted practically without alteration by General Eisenhower and General Montgomery. The “Daily Express” says that General Morgan’s great plan is regarded as one of the classical exercises of military art. He has an untidy appearance, but it conceals one of the British Army’s tidiest minds.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 264, 4 August 1944, Page 5
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159PLANNED INVASION Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 264, 4 August 1944, Page 5
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