THE KING, THE COOK
AND YOUSE GUYS
IT
By Hugh Pond
was May 22, 1944 — 15
senior British planning off- cer sat idly solving a cross- word puzzle.
He suddenly realised that many of the answers were Top Secret code words for the vital msuit which was about to be Jaur.ched.
Words like Neptune; Over- Jord: Omahu; Ulah; Whole; and Mulberry stood out ilko B cryptle code. British Intelli- Hnce was immediately alerted and a discreet but thorough investigation was carried out."
They discovered that the puzzle had been devised by two retired schooltmistresses of un- impenchable loyalty and res- pectability, who had no idea that these words wero top
Becret.
This story is told in an ocul United States History of U.S. Navy operations during the Ger. invasion of France and
many.
Trouble?
Admiral Samuel Morison, the author, alleges trouble between planning stalls over the num- her of met that could be carried in the assault craft,
were
He adds that ta niake malters worse, hundreds of these craft, damaged in excrelses, lying around the British coast unrepaired because the British Admiralty did not wish to spend more money on overtime work in busy British shipyards.
This history tells many stories of good co-operation between the Allied navies, and many amusing ones of differences of approach.
King George VI, on one of his many visits to the Invasion feet, boarded the U.S.S. Augusta and lunched with the admiral,
Standing in the chartroom afterwards the door was flung open and a beaming cook appeared; "Would yer Majesty
cuppa jamoke?"
Horrified
The adulruls were horride, the King looked puzzled,
An American officer translated Jamoke into cup of coffee. The King accepted the invitation, Afterwards he congratulated the cook on the coffee.
were
Future complaints to this cook about his coffee always received with the words; "It li's good enough for the King of England, It's good enough for youse guys."
The admiral paints a vivid picture of Allied naval actions during the invasion of Nor- mandy and of Southern France und of the importance of ac- curate naval gunnery in helping to win many of the soldiers' land battles.
During a full-scale invasion exerelse off the Dorset const in
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mingled
with a degree of good natured booing for poor Siki.
The second round opened in similar fashion. Siki kep: his arms crossed in front of his face, while Carpenter circled round him prodding away with the left,
Suddenly he feinted to the body, drew down the challenger's guard, and smashed home his famous right to the chin. Unfortunately Georges put & ittle more power behind the blow than he had intended.
"I thought your
flag was white until I saw
mine!"
To Devon-a complete Butt (with detergent) for his role as World's Most Peaceful Slate map
-Cummings
For an
being a complete riot, hour the angry fans refused to leave, calling on the officials to name Sikl as the winner.
To Eisenhower the complete
egiteedian of Jokes. on presidentiað galt.
le
When he climbed into the ring he could hear the crac- kle of rifle shots outside the theatre. Inside soldiers stood with fixed bayonets, Finally it was announced that it was the strangest atmosphere
the in which to defend a world the judges had overruled referee's verdict and that Siki Is there any wonder that Siki
points? was the official winner and new lost on
For twenty champion.
rounds he tried his utmost to calch his fly opponent with a Away in his dressing room the telling punch, but he wasn't in downcast Siki fearful of the out- the best shape himself, whereas rage he had committed suddenly Merigue, ringwise after 10 years realised that instead of being of campaigning in Arnericon how to shook the rings knew bad boy was Indeed a 'hero,
points. a-fuss Everybody made
ho was the Idol of the coloured folk in Paria. Presents were showered on him, he could
him;
of
Siki sat down with a bump. He was hurt in more ways than one. He had been promised eat in the best restaurants free that he would suffer no pain, but that punch had been particularly mean. He glared at Georges through a red mist. He lost control of his short temper and sprang up with murder in
his eyes.
-
Leaping at the astonished Carpentier ho swung that one who right that was to change boxing history. Georges saw it coming but he was too amazed to move out of its way.
Even as it landed on his law and floored him he couldn't believe it. He was so bewil- dered that ringwise as he was he jumped up at two, only to be attacked by a raging demon.
Siki's erns were going like windmill salls. He pounded the champion into the ropes and then battered him unmercifully until the bell came to give Carpentier a wel- come respite.
JUST one punch brought fame and fortune to Battling Siki, the woolly-headed, coal black fighter from Senegal, on the French West African coast.
Just one punch, a wildly tossed desperation blow, a roundhouse right that started from his ankles and swept
llo came out for the third looking grim and determined. The acting was over, now the fans and the flim would seo the real thing. Siki had asked for it, now it was coming his way.
Bung full of confidence all his
of charge, he could drink him self drunk every night,
From a simple coloured by kicked around by all and sundry, Siki was transformed in no line Into an arrogant strutting conceited clown, out to drow attention to himself wherever he went at every opportunity.
Every
The verdict went to Mcfique.; A trip to America appeared toʻ Hellers con- be the solution. tacted a New York manager to look after his dusky warrior,
·liner and packed Sikt off on
sat down with a sigh of rellet to wait patiently for his per- centage.
New York suited Biki, There WAS Ffarlem, the coloured morning manager quarter where he was received and where he Hallera would hand him a fistful with open arms of franc notes. lkl Would stuff gained great popularity as he them into the pocket of his rolled up victory after victory gaudy suit and good on the with his free and heavy punch-
Ing. spree.
Harlem
were
Usually be finished up in a Once more money owed in fight and more than once had to and out of his pockets. be balled out by his manager. was life itself. There When Siki got drunk he became coloured, girls, heady drinks, dangerous-and before long the dance halls and hot spots. Parisians began to wish they had never heard of him.
Siki didn't trash. 'Batween fights he went from one.drunken apree to another. He would set Kuk off in the evening, clod dress wear, make his rounds of
evening clothes of the night
fear gone, the coloured 'mün One day on one of the fashion- the coloured night spots and tore
his into rival, tossing able boulevards Siki got out of a keep it up until he fell asleep. punches from
an somewhere, either hand, taxi, dragging after him Georges skilfully avolded ancient but hungry-looking lion More than once he showed up trouble, lured his rival into the he had bought off a menagerie at" The gymnasium wearing required position, then dropped proprietor, him with a neal right-hander. But up bounced Šik! like
ordered drinks for both of them cane. He'd vault over the ropes, rubber ball. And back into the from a terrified walter. Women cut capers to the amusement of ptieck
came, be
catching screamed and fainted, men ran the spectators, then have to be the serious- punch that sent him reeling Georges
another with
jaw for their lives, the cafe owner thrown out to let
minded fighters get down to phoned for the police.
business.
in a wide arc with 175lb of bone and muscle behind it. Carpentier hadn't trained * Just one punch, but it landed with explosive fury on yard for this fight. It hadn't been April 1944 Cover: German E the precious jaw of Georges Carpentier the idol of France,
to give the Parisian fans the thrill of a lifetime.
Area
boris entered the
un- delected.
the confusion which followed, 197 sailors and Siki WDS challenging Cor-
loss of life that suffered on D Day on Utah world. beach.
No arms
As an example of self-sacrifies
and heroism shown by Britisă and American sailers, Admiral quotes the following
Morison atory:
The American destroyer Rich was blown up by mines. Ships approached to cave survivors, Somo, budiy wounded, were picked up.
of
tho
man
had made him a world-famous- #gure for the past 10 years.
to take this sort of treatment,
hat end
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Into a cafe the pair went. Siki before, including top for little more than the
That little episode brought a
It couldn't last of course. His gnol-and or. 1wo in He was in to shage week necessary.
a fight with suspension by the French Boxing manager got him
It also mount an Paul Bertanbach. It was a well Federation abrupt halt in the flow of spend paid job with the winner being It was ing money, for credit had been promised a titla fight. gained on the strength of fights Ski's big chance to win back his
to
to come.
whe
tilic.
443 soldiers were killed, This pentier for the light-heavy of the world where the white
Long rights bounced off his than weight championship was greater
was the undisputed boss jaw, left, swings thundered and although he had bowled heavily into his ribs. Gamely A proposed bout with Joe No one gave the coloured lad over a number of them during but desperately Georges tried to Beckett, the British heavyweight a chance of winning. He was his undistinguished career he stem the tide, but nothing he champlon, in London,
But on the morning of the only in there so that Georges lind never met anyone of such did could stop the black demon banned by the Home Office and fight he was missing from his could entertain them with dynamic personality as famous who danced in front of him things looked sticky for the new lodgings. They searched Harlem
4 Georges. spectacular win.
drunken and found him in a plling in punches from all anglés, champion. It was to be a real Parisian Slid feared, Carpenter's re-
stupor, but he recovered after The next three rounds must
Then someone offered him being worked upon in a turkish holiday. A lovely wein Septem- putation, the occasion had him
stiff. Ho know that have
a nightmare ber Sunday at the big Velodrome scared
been
Day against an Irishman named Buffalo, to which the sports- everyone in the big area would Carpentier. The crowd's favours at in Dublin on St. Patrick's bath for several hours.
switched to Siki as Mike MeTiguo. Hollers who Totally unit to go in with a the be yelling for Carpentier. Not had now loving men and women of Gay City had flocked in their even the knowledge that they watched him better down knew little about the Erin tale, man of Berlanbach's class Biki terrible beating. given a thousands.
Georges had promised to pull the former idol.
leta about St. Patrick and was Of course Siki was to be the his punches made the Battling
Georges' face was a red mank nothing at all About Morigue, Only his iron frame and amazing belief in himself proventod him merileo, while Georges gave an One any more cager to get into of his own blood, he was getting accepted the fight.
being knocked out, He was still exhibition of fistic skili, ring- tie ring,
Suddenly weaker and weaker.
No one thought of telling him on his feet, battered to a pill, craft and punching power that
the coloured man put over the there was a rebellion on at the when the referee stopped in. Ainishing biow, a slugging fight game tine...
Back he went to the wild lite between the
of Harlem. Once he was taken Little did they know, how- But in ho had to go. When that landed in
The purse of 22,000 was, at for a ride by ramppters and ever, that to make sure thai the first gong sounded and he champion's eye.
the Frenchman'a request, split up thrown out of a moving car. He nothing would go wrong with was in there alone with the
Down went Carpentier. Carried with only £600 for the loser, so was
weeks in hospital and the aftercon's performance, dreaded Carpentier his ances manager Francols Descamps had shook. He was so nervous that forward by the force he had confident were they that Slid had refused to disclose the names of
his assallants. parleyed satisfactorily with Paul he went down from practically put behind the blow, Silki fell an easy task on hand.
rival's legs. Up he
Another time he was stabbed Hellers who handled Sikia ring the first punch he took from his over his
the bounced to stand off by
As a native son McTiguo wan nstairs.
rival. at him, and in arm, calm He had to last for half a His
rolling with ropes and watch the referee free to do as he pleased, although in the back with an ico-pick, there were rebellous elements but again recovered and would dozen rounds so that the movie fear as he got up. He backed of count phor Deorges out.
In the city who were prepared to bring no charges against anyone. cameras would let a good film, round the ring. Soon he was The fans yelled and waited stick of nothing to see the light Finally one December morning a lengthy enough to make it a down again, this time without for the Battling Ons to be, an- did not take place, not because policeman found him in a pool commercial proposition,
'being struck at all...
told him to get nounced us the new littebolder, they disapproved of Ughting, but of his own blood, large, bullet Sitz would get a share Tho refereo
"Amazing to bobold be, still Over the Toddapealses they stirring up dit trouble.
lived · but, pamed amall thare of the proceeds and up. Georges was smiling this but they were in for a big shock. nity occasion was seized for the wounds in his back. ull he had to do was to take would make the fim look good, were told that Bild had been
It was all very bewildering hospital a few hours late (Illstory of
United States Carpontiers punches, pay a visit He showered the coloured man disqualified for ripping and NAVAL Operations in World or two to the canvas and then with light punches using his that Carpentier was all the for pode 'Bild who didn't under from the Batic scons, which he stand where he was or what was had so gally painted went War 11. The Invasion of bow himself out with a graceful entire repertoiro to the delight of world Litleholder.
going on. In the dressing-room Battling Biki - the Bayaza from France and Germany," Volume kayo,
tremendous sp. That did it Crowds surged, he had bisan peland with terror Sençal, who rose to time in a XI. By Fanuel Eligt Morison, The Bunting Die hd There was peterd University Press, 156, wanted to that Carpentier, le plause for the French Idol at round the ring, the 'referon was when a bolsh Wir exploded in a fish and went, to his death and
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