Top-secret charts and maps now lined the Model Room. Paul’s School had long been evacuated to rural England-German bombs had shattered seven hundred windows across the school’s campus. Then six uniformed ushers escorted the guests, later described as “big men with the air of fame about them,” into the Model Room, a cold auditorium with black columns and hard, narrow benches reputedly designed to keep young schoolboys awake. American military policemen-known as Snowdrops for their white helmets, white pistol belts, white leggings, and white gloves-looked closely at the 146 engraved invitations and security passes distributed a month earlier. Admirals, generals, field marshals, logisticians, and staff by the score climbed from their limousines and marched into a Gothic building of St. IN THIS ROOM, the greatest Anglo-American military leaders of World War II gathered to rehearse the deathblow intended to destroy Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
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