In actions opening the Normandy invasion, American paratroopers suffered their first encounterwith SS iron-handedness, and later at Bayeux the 12th SS Panzer Division shot down forty British and Canadian prisoners of war.

The hieroglyphics or symbols, however, were reversed, just as though they had been pressed on wax.

Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him.

“Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.”