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The capture of Safi, where the medium tanks of the Western Task Force were to be landed, opened the attack in Morocco. At about 0600, 7 November, the Southern Attack Group carrying the Safi landing force split from the main convoy of the Western Naval Task Force and headed toward its objective. In midafternoon, while the remainder of the convoy zigzagged, the transport Lyon dropped astern with the destroyer-transports Bernadou and Cole and in about two hours transferred to them by means of landing craft the bulk of companies K and L, 47th Infantry. These men, especially trained, were to be the first to land.
[NOTE 5-XR: The documentary records of the amphibiousand land operations in taking Safi are assembled in the following: (1) CTG 34.10 War Diary and Action Rpt, Operation TORCH: Assault on Safi, French Morocco, 8 Nov 42. This includes reports of the Philadelphia, Mervine, Knight, Beatty, Merrimack, Harris, Lyon, Lakehurst, and Calvert. (2) WTF Final Rpt, Operations TORCH, with annexes. DRB AGO. Of especial value is Annex I, Final Rpt Opns BLACKSTONE. This section is based primarily on those records. (3) See also Maj James Y. Adams, AGF Obsr's Rpt, 7 Jan 43. Copy in AGF 319.1 (For. Obs), Binder I, Tab 8.]
Half an hour before midnight, the transports and warships began to enter their assigned areas about eight miles offshore, and Led by the old battleship New York and the light cruiser Philadelphia, it included the escort aircraft carrier Santee, eight destroyers, four transports, one cargo ship, the seatrain, two old modified destroyer-transports, an oil tanker, one mine layer, two mine sweepers, and a tug, soon the column came to a stop. (The Santee remained about sixty miles from the coast, guarded by two destroyers, during the next four days.) Safi's lights were visible on the horizon as preparations for the landings began at once. Troops were alerted. Boats were lowered. Debarkation nets went over the sides. The landing craft were loaded. But in the black darkness, the complicated process of debarkation advanced less rapidly than had been contemplated in the plan of attack and made improvisation necessary.
The Objective and Its Defenses
To the men who were about to land, Safi remained until daylight as they had seen it pictured on maps and photographs, or described in field orders and operations plans. They knew it to be a small town (about 25,000) near an artificial harbor which had been used in recent years principally for the export of phosphates.
The harbor was a triangular area of protected water sheltered on the east by the shore, on the west by a long jetty extending northwesterly from the shore for a distance of almost a mile, and on the north by a mole (phosphate pier) which projected westward about 300 yards at right angles to the shore. The gap between the tip of the mole and the jetty was the harbor entrance, an opening about 500 feet in width. Within this harbor triangle were several mooring places for ships with drafts of as much as thirty feet, and in the southernmost angle, the Petite Darse as it was called, were slips for shallower draft fishing boats. The merchandise quay at the northeastern comer provided berths for at least three large vessels.
Electric cranes were available there for loading operations. The wharves had access to covered sheds and to space for considerable open storage, and were connected by spur tracks to a railroad leading to the interior. Near this comer, also, was a 100-foot lighthouse tower.
South of the artificial harbor and the new buildings in its vicinity was the old fishing town of Safi, which extended along the coastal shelf and at a break in the bluffs up the easier slopes to a rolling tableland. The native city was nearest the sea at a point where a small stream entered it. Not far from the cliff like waterfront was the tower of an old Portuguese fort of masonry in the crenelated style of the late Middle Ages. On the hillside 750 yards to the east was the Army barracks, and about 2,200 yards farther inland, an emergency landing field for aircraft.
Safi's beaches were few and, for the most part, lay at the base of high, steep, and rocky bluffs which allowed no exit for vehicles. Within the harbor, however, near the Petite Darse was a short stretch of soft sand, rising rather rapidly to the coastal shelf, which was designated as GREEN Beach. Just outside the harbor, extending northward from the mole for almost 500 yards was a longer strip of sand called BLUE Beach. A third patch of sand ran for a somewhat shorter distance along the base of the cliffs northwest of BLUE Beach; it was called RED Beach. Approaches to RED and BLUE Beaches were exposed to the surf.
Passage inland from them was possible for vehicles only from the southernmost portion of BLUE Beach. The last of the beaches at which landings might have been made was eight miles south of the harbor, at Jorfel Houdi, below rugged but not insurmountable bluffs and near a road. It was labeled YELLOW Beach and considered during the planning as a possible point of landing from which to march on Safi from the south. Its approaches were to be reconnoitered by submarine in time to be reported to the subtask force commander during the first hours after arriving off Safi. Should the report be favorable, the 2nd Battalion Landing Team, 47th Infantry, would be sent there while other units were striking farther north.
At Safi the invaders expected to find a garrison of over 1,000 men. The force actually there was smaller than that, consisting of one battalion of infantry, one armored battalion equipped with fifteen obsolete light tanks and five armored cars, and two batteries of artillery, one with four 75-mm. howitzers and the other four 155-mm. mobile guns. There were coastal guns on Pointe de la Tour and on the tableland above the harbor mouth. Air support could be summoned from inland airdromes and ground reinforcements from Marrakech, at least ninety-four miles away, and possibly from other points. In fact, road and railway connections with Marrakech alone might, if undisturbed, bring to the Safi area within ten hours about 1,400 cavalry, 2,000 infantry, two battalions of horse-drawn guns, and, in even less time, thirty tanks and ten armored cars.
The warnings which spread across French Morocco reached Safi shortly after 0320 (local time). The commanding officer at Safi, Major Deuve, started promptly for his command post, a small group of buildings on the rolling tableland just above the port known as the Front de Mer. While the invading force was organizing for landings, he confirmed the readiness of his slender defenses to resist what might come to Safi. An actual total of some 450 officers and men maned the following:
(1) At the Front de Mer, two exposed 75-mm. guns operated by naval crews and defended with automatic arms from surrounding rifle pits.
(2) On the Pointe de la Tour, a headland less than a mile above RED Beach, a coastal battery known as La Railleuse which
consisted of two operable and two inoperable 130-mm. guns in fixed circular emplacements, with a modem range finder and fire control apparatus. The guns had a reputed range of 19,000 yards. They were themselves protected by four .50-caliber antiaircraft machine guns and barbed wire barriers. They were maned by naval crews and defended by part of the 104th (Coastal Defense) Company of the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Regiment, most of whom remained on the alert in a neighboring village. shore, a mobile battery of three tractor-drawn 155-mm. guns in a well-camouflaged position.
(3) In a prepared position on high ground south of the town, next to the town's European cemetery, ,a battery of four 75- mm. pieces operated by the 2nd Regiment of the Foreign Legion.
( 4-) Approximately two miles south of the town and a half mile inland from the
( 5) Beside the Public Garden, a platoon of light tanks.
The 5th Company of the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Regiment quickly sent forward a picket platoon and moved to positions from which to resist landings in and about the harbor.
9th Infantry Division ( 1st BLT, 47th Infantry / 2nd BLT, 47th Infantry /Headquarters, 47th Infantry)
Armored Landing Team (2nd Battalion (reinforced), 67th Armored Regimen /Headquarters, Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division)
Armored Team on Seatrain (3rd Battalion (reinforced), 67th Armored Regiment /Armored Team Combat Support Troops)
Other Force "X" Personnel; Detachment of Air Force Air Support Party /1st Armored Signal Battalion / 122nd Si gnal Company (Radio Intelligence) / 142nd Signal Company / 163rd Signal Company (Photographic) / 239th Signal Company (Operational) / 66th Engineer Company (Topographic) / 56th Medical Battalion /Headquarters, 2nd Armored Division / Interpreters / Prisoner Interrogation Teams / Civil Government Personnel / 4th Platoon. battery A/3rd Artillery (AA) Battalion / 5th Platoon, battery A/3rd Co/ 1st Artillery (AA) Battalion.]
The Plan of Attack
The Safi landing force (designated Sub-Task Force BLACKSTONE) numbered 327 officers and 6,101 enlisted men, commanded by Major General Ernest N. Harmon, Commanding General, 2nd Armored Division. The force was organized into two battalion landing teams (BLT's) for amphibious assault, with part of one infantry battalion in reserve; one armored landing team for early commitment with one medium tank battalion in reserve; a small medical unit, several specialized signal detachments, interpreters and interrogators of prisoners of war; and miscellaneous other detachments.
The light tanks attached to the two BL T's came from Company B, 70th Tank Battalion (Separate). The Armored Landing Team consisted of elements of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 67th Armored Regiment (thirty-six light and fifty-four medium tanks), supported by two batteries of self-propelled 105-mm. howitzers, a provisional bridge company, signal and supply detachments-all from the 2nd Armored Division. The sub-task force commander took his staff and headquarters from that division, as did Brigadier General Hugh J. Gaffey, who controlled the Armored Landing Team through Headquarters, Combat Command B, and a detachment from Headquarters, 67th Armored Regiment.
The main purpose in taking Safi was to get the medium tanks ashore to use as needed. The forthcoming operation was expected to fall into four major phases. First the port must be brought under control by seizing the docks and preventing sabotage, and by clearing the enemy from a deep beachhead around it. Next, the armored elements on the transport Titania and the medium tanks on the seatrain Lakehurst had to be brought ashore and assembled for combat.
Third, the line of communication had to be made secure for a northward advance. Lastly, the armored force, in particular, had to hasten overland toward Casablanca using bridges over the Oum er Rbia river which must be secured as early as possible. To control the port and establish the beachhead, artillery batteries had to be neutralized and captured, machine gun positions cleared, the garrison subdued, and the arrival of French ground reinforcements or delivery of a serious air attack prevented by defended roadblocks and by supporting air cover.
After reconnaissance, the assault was scheduled to open with surprise landings in the harbor itself from the Bernadou and the Cole. Following the latter from the line of departure, 3,500 yards offshore, at intervals of not more than 50 feet so as to keep each other in sight, were to Come a wave of five light tanks for GREEN Beach and three successive waves of infantry intended for Beaches BLUE, RED, and GREEN respectively.
The trip in was to take from thirteen to sixteen minutes. Three more assault waves were to wait at the line of departure, the first two to be sent in by the control vessel at proper intervals and the last to remain in floating reserve until summoned from shore. First light was expected at 0536 and sunrise at 0700. The time for starting the run to shore was therefore set for 0330.
Debarkation Begins
Debarkation from the transports waiting off Safi proved more difficult than had been anticipated. Matters were complicated by the fact that, even before the men began shifting from the transports to landing craft, events did not go according to plan. After darkness had fallen on 7 November, the U.S. submarine Barb took station some two and one-half miles from Pointe de la Tour and disembarked a detachment of Army scouts from the 47th Infantry to row in a rubber boat to the end of the long jetty, there to mark the harbor entrance by infrared signals in order to help the Bernadou and the Cole. In complete darkness, they entered the harbor before they discovered their exact whereabouts and were obliged to take shelter from the fire of sentries. The submarine, however, started continuous infrared signaling from its station.
While landing craft were being loaded alongside the transports, a scout boat from the transport Harm commanded by Ensign John J. Bell, started in at 0200 carrying orders to the special landing groups on the Bernadou and Cole to execute the attack plan, and with instructions to obtain from the submarine a written report of its reconnaissance of YELLOW Beach. The submarine's signals could not be seen. Ensign Bell therefore reported to the commanders of the Bernadou and the Cole that he would himself take a position off the tip of the jetty to assist their approach. He neared the harbor at minimum speed, cutting his motor every fifteen minutes and listening as he drifted.
[NOTE: The submarine remained until firing by friendly ships forced it to submerge, and then, shortly after 0600, started for a patrol station southwest of Mogador, out of the attack zone and in the path of any French naval reinforcements from Dakar. Its beach reconnaissance had been completed so near the time of attack as to be of minor value. Its assistance to navigation y the Bernadou and Cole was superseded by that furnished from the scout boat carrying Ensign Bell. (I) Barb Action Rpt, 25 Nov 42]
At 0410, as he neared the spot from which to guide the incoming Bernadou, he saw the lights at the end of the jetty go out, and from the general direction of Pointe de la Tour, barely descried the destroyer-transport nearing the harbor mouth. Its infrared light was visible. Ensign Bell turned on his own.
The 1st Battalion Landing Team (BL T) 47th Infantry (Major Frederick C. Feil), disembarked from the Harris while the harbor entrance was being marked and the two destroyer-transports were getting into position to enter the port. The Harris twenty-eight landing craft were lowered by 0035 hours, while twenty-one more boats from the Lyon and the Calvert, were on the way. Those from the Lyon had difficulty finding the Hams and were late. Unloading operations in the darkness fell behind the appointed schedule, necessitating a delay of thirty minutes in the entire program. The vehicles and guns of the first wave of artillery had been loaded in three holds on the fourth deck of the Harris; to extract them, heavy vehicles had to be shifted and nine hatches had to be opened. The troops, moreover, weighed down with sixty-pound packs and weapons, crawled deliberately down the debarkation nets.
The limited training and experience of the Western Naval Task Force showed at this juncture. Getting the assigned landing craft to ship's side and lowering tanks, vehicles, ammunition, and equipment in the heavy swell proved unexpectedly difficult. Only four out of five tank lighters for the first wave and only the first three personnel waves were loaded from the Harris and sent to the rendezvous area off its port bow in time for the delayed H Hour. The other two waves straggled. The wave of tanks and the three waves of troops started in, nonetheless, from the line of departure at 0400. They were escorted by the destroyers Mervine and Beatty.
The Battle Opens
The Beatty was expected to furnish fire support from an area south of the lanes of approach. It crossed behind the Bernadou to reach its position. In the darkness, the Beatty was mistaken by those on the Cole for the Bernadou itself. As the Bernadou neared the harbor mouth, the signal "VH" was flashed from the shore. It replied at once with the same signal. Nothing followed from the shore for about fifteen minutes. Then, as the ship passed the north end of the jetty to enter the harbor mouth, the defenders of Safi suddenly poured fire in that direction from the 75-mm. battery at the Front de Mer, from machine guns emplaced along the bluffs and the high ground east of the port, and from rifles on the wharves and jetty. From its hidden position south of Safi, even the 155-mm. battery opened up, and the 130-mm. battery on Pointe de la Tour also began to bombard the transport area. The Bernadou's gunners replied with steady efficiency while the ship continued on her way. A flare with American flag attached was released above the harbor in the hope of moderating the hostile reception; for a brief period it assisted the French gun pointers but had no other effect.
At 0428, when French gun flashes were observed by those on the Mervine, her commander gave the code signal for meeting such resistance, "Batter Up!" Her gunners, who had kept their weapons trained on the lights near the coast as the vessel escorted the landing craft toward the shore, responded almost instantly to firing orders with accurate and effective salvos. Only a minute or two later, the Beatty's 5-inch shells also began to strike the area from which French artillery and machine gun fire was coming.
At 0438, Admiral Davidson signaled "Play Ball." The New York then took under fire the big guns on Pointe de la Tour, smashing the fire control tower with the second salvo of its 14-inch shells. At the same time, the Philadelphia shelled the supposed site of the battery to the south. For about ten minutes, fire was heavy, but it diminished as the Bernadou drew near shore within the port.
Bearing Company K, 47th Infantry (Captain Gordon H. Sympson), that old vessel pressed through the opening tempest of both hostile and friendly fire to the narrowing angle of the harbor near its southern limits. Boats at anchor barred quick access to the wharves; so the Bernadou made for a small mole between GREEN Beach and the Petite Darse, ran gently upon its rocks, flung over a landing net, and, at approximately 0445, disembarked the first American troops to land in French Morocco. The first men clambered down the net a few feet and hastened along the mole to the positions which they had been trained to take. Others were much more deliberate.
When the Cole observed the Beatty en route to her fire support position in the darkness and mistook her for the Bernadou, she turned southward to follow. Soon Ensign Bell in the scout boat saw her on a course certain to pile her against the jetty. By flashlight and then by voice radio, he signaled barely in time to stop her thirty yards short of a crash. Also by radio, he guided the Cole back on a curving course into the harbor.
The tank lighters by this time had cut ahead of her and, although one fell out temporarily with motor trouble, three continued into the harbor to GREEN Beach, arriving there some twenty minutes after the Bernadou.
The 47th Infantry Reconnaissance Platoon rode with the tanks in these lighters, and, on reaching shore, one section hastened through Company K to the post office to take over the telephone and telegraph central station and to cut communications with the rest of Morocco. They captured some French troops moving toward the port, seized an antitank gun, and disarmed civil police."
The Cole itself ran through a renewed outburst of machine gun and small arms fire but swung along the merchandise quay. Company L, 47th Infantry (Captain Thomson Wilson), debarked and swarmed through the dock area, from which the defenders fled, while one American detachment overcame a machine gun crew to take possession of the petroleum storage tanks about 350 yards east of the harbor.
At daylight, the harbor, railroad station, post office, and highways entering the city from the south were held by men of the special landing groups. The enemy had taken cover in buildings and other places of vantage on the heights east and north of the port, from which sporadic fire was received well into the afternoon. The first three waves of the Major Fell's 1st Battalion Landing Team, 47th Infantry, each with more than 200 men in a group of six landing craft personnel, ramp (LCPR's), landed before daylight on RED, BLUE, and GREEN Beaches.
[NOTE 6-1LK: (1) The first wave consisted of 212 men, a few more than in the second and third, distributed among the following units: Company A, 47th Infantry; 15th Engineers; and 163rd Signal Company ( Photo). The first wave also contained the following specialists: communications sergeant with SCR-536; shore party beach markers; two light machine gun squads; two 60-mm. mortar squads; four aid men; and two litter bearers. (2) USS Harris Action Rpt, 16 Nov 42. (3) 47th 10£ Hist, I Aug 40–31 Dec 42. (4) Adams, AGF ObIT's Rpt, 7 Ian 43. Copy in AGF 319.1 (For. Obs), Binder I, Tab 8.]
The plan to remain close enough for visual contact broke down during the run to shore. Each wave depended on navigation by compass and on the assistance of Ensign Bell's flashlight signals to save itself from fumbling around the harbor entrance until first light. The three waves reached land between 0500 and 0530, largely where they had expected to, and got themselves and their equipment up the beaches against minor resistance from higher ground. Company B and a platoon of Company A, 47th Infantry, pushed inland from Beach RED, but others advanced from Beaches BLUE and GREEN only after about an hour's delay. The fourth and fifth waves, held up by various difficulties in debarkation, did not go ashore before daylight.
Daylight revealed to the defenders at the coastal defense guns on Pointe de la Tour the exact location, within easy range, of the transports and the destroyer Mervine. They resumed the firing which had been suspended about two hours previously, concentrating on the Mervine while the transports hastily moved farther from the shore.
The destroyer, replying with its own guns as best it could, by energetic evasion also got out of range, but not until it had been straddled several times and its steering gear injured by a near miss astern. The fourth wave of the 1st BLT, 47th Infantry, started in for BLUE Beach just as the firing began and, passing unscathed under the shellfire, arrived about 0745. The fifth wave was withheld while the Harris moved out to sea, and did not land until about 0905. Meanwhile, Ensign Bell's scout boat hurried away from its vulnerable position near the harbor entrance and was sent to assist the landings at YELLOW Beach.
The attempt to send the 2nd BLT (Major Louis Gershenow) to YELLOW Beach had been thwarted until after daylight. The transport Dorothea L. Dix, crowded with approximately 1,450 officers and enlisted men, 5 light tanks, and nearly 1,500 tons of vehicles and other cargo, made hard work of debarkation.
Lowering and loading of landing craft in the heavy swell fell considerably behind the schedule. Its scout boat, away in time to take station oft' YELLOW Beach at 0355, waited there for the destroyer Knight to escort the waves of landing craft, but the Knight was not ready until after 0500.
The destroyer began the eight mile movement from the transport area with only five imperfectly organized waves of the ten needed to carry the whole landing team. En route, these five lost contact with the destroyer and returned to the transport area; here they circled about, and did not start for YELLOW Beach again until 0800, when La Railleuse had ceased firing.
The abortive first effort of the 2nd BLT to reach YELLOW Beach during the last hour of darkness had hardly begun when one of the most disturbing episodes of the Safi landing occurred. A truck being lowered by the Dix into an LCV (landing craft, vehicle) was swung heavily against the side by the ship's motion. An extra gasoline can on the truck was crushed, spraying gasoline into the motor of the craft below. There it exploded, igniting the boat, the truck, and the ship's side. Flames flared up brilliantly, silhouetting other vessels in the transport area. On other ships and among troops at the beaches or in landing craft, the belief prevailed that the Dix had been torpedoed. This impression was strengthened by exploding ammunition in the burning LCV, which gave the semblance of combat until the craft sank, the noise subsided, and the flaming truck was dropped overboard.
The harbor, the port facilities, and the southern part of Safi were brought under American control by the special landing groups and part of the 47th Infantry Reconnaissance Platoon in less time than it took the 1st BLT to take its objective-the high ground northeast and north of the harbor. The first three waves of the 1st BLT, as already noted, reached RED, BLUE, and GREEN Beaches against minor resistance, and in darkness.
They organized the beaches and prepared to advance inland to the Front de Mer, Pointe de la Tour, and other centers of French resistance. As the light improved, fire from machine guns and concealed riflemen increased. Company C, which landed at 0630, had expected the support of light tanks from GREEN Beach, but these vehicles were delayed for several hours. Only three tank lighters, it will beremembered, reached GREEN Beach together, shortly after the Bernadou had arrived there. A fourth lighter straggled in much later after repairing an engine failure which had forced it to drop out of the wave formation. A fifth made the trip from the Harris to the beach alone.
Once ashore, all the tanks were immobilized by drowned motors, faulty batteries, or by the steep, soft sand. It was after 0800 before they were ready for action. By that time, naval gun fire had silenced the coastal defense guns, and most of the high ground adjacent to the port was in American possession, although enemy riflemen remained concealed on the bluff or in buildings overlooking the harbor. The infantry, after bogging down under fire, were rallied by Colonel Edwin H. Randle and moved inland without the tanks to their objectives along the beachhead line. Company D passed through them after landing at BLUE Beach at 0705.
Completing the Seizure of Safi
Deepening the beachhead and clearing a channel for the seatrain Lakehurst from the transport area to the harbor were the next operations to be attempted. To assist in the first operation, the remainder of the 3rd BLT, 47th Infantry (Major John B. Evans), was ordered ashore from the Lyon to reinforce the special harbor landing groups as soon as landing craft became available. Disembarkation began at 0755 and the first wave started in at 0903, but the unit was not all ashore and reorganized until about noon.
The 2nd BL T began its second attempt to reach YELLOW Beach from the Dix just before 0800 and at noon most of the unit was ashore and ready to move upon Safi along the coastal roads. Part of the 2nd Battalion was eventually sent directly into the port, where it rejoined those who had by then marched north from YELLOW Beach after setting up roadblocks and blowing up the railroad en route. The Armored Landing Team, whose light tanks and other vehicles were on the Titania, while most of its personnel was on the Calvert, was ordered at about 0900 to start sending tanks to the beach in lighters. Within an hour, one platoon had cleared GREEN Beach and was bound to Pointe de la Tour to investigate the situation there. In midmorning, General Gaffey, with one more platoon of five tanks, hastened from BLUE Beach to reinforce an infantry team in quelling renewed resistance at the old Portuguese fort. Thereafter, all tanks were unloaded within the harbor from ship to quay.
Before either the 3rd BL T from GREEN Beach or the 2nd BL T from YELLOW Beach had extended its control over the site of the 155-mm. mobile battery two miles south of Safi, that battery renewed its firing in one final bombardment of Safi harbor. The Philadelphia's supporting fire at the opening of the battle seemed at the time to have silenced it, but as the Armored Landing Team began to debark from the Titania, shells believed to come from these large guns made it necessary to neutralize them at once. General Harmon, at 1025, got a call through to the cruiser Philadelphia requesting fire on the battery's supposed position.
Ten minutes later, while an observation plane helped locate the camouflaged target, the cruiser began dropping salvos of 6-inch shells which finally found their mark. To complete the destruction of the battery, bombers worked over it until a direct hit on one gun was seen. Later investigation indicated that the French had themselves rendered the weapons unusable. After the French shelling ceased, unloading of the tanks was resumed at noon, and when the channel had been swept early in the afternoon, both the seatrain Lakehurst and the Titania moved to dockside moorings. The Calvert and Lyon anchored just outside the harbor.
American possession of the main defensive batteries and of the harbor was disputed by harassing small arms fire long after it became imperative, under orders from General Patton, to expedite the unloading. American troops were engaged, for at least an hour after the seatrain docked, in a fire fight in the vicinity of GREEN Beach and along the waterfront streets against a few riflemen concealed in buildings and on the hillsides. Unloading kept stopping as men took cover from whining bullets.
The main center of resistance until midafternoon on D Day was the walled French Army barracks area, between the port and the newer part of the town, southeast of the medina. Company K, leaving one platoon at the roadblock on the highway to Mogador, was ordered back at about 0730 to engage the occupants of the barracks, but at the southern limit of the area was pinned down by machine gun and rifle fire. When I Company approached from the northeast, it too
was held up. The defenders then tried to counterattack with three light tanks only to have two of them knocked out of service by antitank rifle grenades, while the driver of a third was stunned in colliding with a wall. The tanks were seized and their guns were turned against the barracks.
Early in the afternoon, a section of M Company's 81-mm. mortars, commanded by Captain James D. Johnston, began dropping high explosive shells around the area for two hours while the garrison still held out. In the meantime, Battery A, 84th Field Artillery, got its truck-drawn 75-mm. pieces emplaced above BLUE Beach in a position which commanded both the barracks area and the main thoroughfare to Marrakech.
The guns were not employed against the barracks for fear of harming friendly troops, but the area was surrendered anyway at about 1530, 8 November. About that time, General Harmon landed and soon had tank and motorized patrols clearing out the snipers who were harassing the troops unloading supplies in the port. The day's operations, during which Companies C and L in the port area took the most punishment, were almost completed. Safi had been taken.
Almost from the first, civilian natives became a problem to the attacking troops. They gathered in awed crowds to observe the naval shelling; they were disdainfully unafraid of small arms fire. A soldier would snake his way painfully through rocks and rubble to set up a light machine gun, raise his head cautiously to aim, and find a dozen natives clustered solemnly around him.
Street intersections were crowded with natives turning their heads like a tennis gallery in trying to watch the exchange of fire. The wounded were poked and jabbered at. An unfolded map quickly attracted an excited group. During the afternoon, the natives thronged the beaches, unloading landing craft for the price of a cigarette, a can of food, a piece of cloth, plus whatever they could steal. Pilferage they attempted with tireless energy. Two days later tons of ammunition and rations were to be found loaded on native fishing vessels. The theft of weapons was far less frequent. Both civilian and military French officials joined in urging preventive measures to deal with the native propensity for sniping.
Control over the deepening bridgehead eventually gave security to the unloading operations from all serious danger except a retaliatory air strike. The air cover which the Santee could offer was extremely weak, for its complement had been hurried into combat while still greatly lacking in experience and training. Admiral Davidson preferred to depend upon the seaplanes of the New York and the Philadelphia. Since the French air units at Marrakech were reported to be friendly, plans to strike the airfield at dawn on D Day had been canceled, and air action was limited to reconnaissance.
French aviation remained quiet until midafternoon. Then, at about 1540, and again a little later, a two-engined bomber circled low enough over the harbor to draw anti. aircraft fire from the batteries ashore and from the seatrain. It seemed likely that, before daylight returned next day, Safi would be under French air attack.
When darkness fell on Safi, the beachhead extended about 5,000 yards from the port. All the roads leading into the townwere blocked. Traffic entered the city only after all persons had been searched for weapons; no one was allowed to leave. The streets were patrolled. Prisoners of war, eventually to number about 300, were accumulating in a newly organized enclosure.
Known Axis collaborationists were in custody. At the piers and near the end of the jetty, the transport crews were putting ashore the tanks, vehicles, and supplies of Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division. To guard against possible counterattacks, the tanks from the Titania, the Harris, and the Lyon were either concentrated at an assembly area on Horseshoe Hill, about three miles northeast of the harbor, or sent on reconnaissance toward Marrakech. Casualties had been light, only three dead and twenty-five wounded having been evacuated to the Hams by the medical beach party. One man had drowned while going over the side from the Lyon.
Air Action at Saft
On D Day no threat of a French counterattack from Marrakech was noted, but French air reconnaissance and strafing in the latter part of the afternoon, at the probable cost of one plane, indicated that stronger resistance might be forthcoming. It could, as an early morning warning stated, take the form of a heavy bombing raid on the shipping and stores concentrated in the port; or it might take the form of an overland attack by armored troops. In any event, the Americans would be winnable to the air but reasonably strong on the ground. Their objective remained that of getting the armor ashore and on its way north to help effect the capture of Casablanca, not to use it in an attack on Marrakech.
The morning of 9 November brought the expected French air strike. At dawn, just as planes from the Santee were beginning antisubmarine patrol, and with the coast itself shrouded in thick fog, what sounded like a considerable formation of enemy planes passed over the town and harbor. Only one determined bomber, unable to discern the target through the fog, swept under the ceiling for a low-level run over the seatrain with its load of medium tanks. It struck instead one of the small warehouses near the ship, a building which had been used as an ammunition dump. The structure was soon ablaze and ammunition began to explode. The resulting damage, casualties, and delay in unloading, though considerable for a single bomb, were minor for a whole raid. The plane itself was caught by antiaircraft fire and crashed on RED Beach. The rest of the French formation did not return.
Less than an hour later, an American carrier-based plane reconnoitered the Marrakech airdrome and was fired upon. The task force commander reluctantly concluded that the airfield must be neutralized before his armored column could leave the area for Casablanca. In the latter part of the afternoon, therefore, a formation of twelve planes from the Santee delivered the first attack, destroying eight or more widely dispersed aircraft on the ground and setting fire to the hangar.!. Eventually, some forty French planes of all types were destroyed on the Marrakech field.
While approaching the Marrakech targets, and again on their return, the formation also attacked more than forty trucks carrying French reinforcements toward Safi, strafing and dispersing them. This air strike opened the last phase of the battle. With gasoline running too low for the return to the Santee, the planes had to land on the small airfield at Safi, which had been enclosed within the beachhead. But as the planes ran downgrade on its irregular runway, six hit soft spots and nosed over.
During the morning, Admiral Davidson and General Harmon recommended to Admiral Hewitt and General Patton that some of the Army P-40's on the carrier Chenango be based temporarily at Safi. The planes could use gasoline and ground crews furnished by General Harmon's force, with maintenance personnel and equipment from the cruiser Philadelphia. Drums of aviation gasoline and lubricating oil were taken to the airfield from the Titania, and four antiaircraft guns were set up there and maned by Army units. Although the P-40's were not sent, the little field was dotted by nightfall with the unfortunate planes from the Santee. To get five which were still operational back in the air on 10 November, a portion of the adjacent highway was prepared for use as an air strip. A bulldozer began to level the trees on either side and, although delayed during the night by a sniper, completed the task next morning.
By then the wind had unfortunately shifted, sweeping across the highway. Only two out of five attempts at take-off were successful. The remaining planes were therefore left for salvage.
Unloading of cargo at Safi was completed as rapidly as possible, but with such insufficient provision for setting up inland dumps that the docks and beaches became congested. The transports, moored at the wharves or anchored off the end of the jetty, continued unloading throughout the first night after the landings. They were screened against submarines and air attack by a close semicircle of seven supporting warships while the cruiser, the escort carrier, and their respective destroyer screens moved out to sea.
The Titania's landing craft were released to the Calvert as the former's cargo was swung by booms down to the phosphate pier. To unload, the Calvert first used BLUE and GREEN Beaches, then slips of the Petite Darse, and finally a berth vacated by the Titania on the evening of 11 November. The Lyon came in on the evening of the 12th. A large naval working party, after making room on the docks, emptied the Lyon in time for her departure at 1600, 13 November. The Harris and the Dix were similarly cleared for return to Norfolk at that time.
Stopping French Reinforcement From Marrakech
The considerable French garrison at Marrakech, the center of the Safi-Mogador defense sector, was commanded by General Martin, from whom General Bethouart had expected to receive assistance. General Martin's intention to aid the Americans was revised upon his receipt of orders which he would not disobey but which he executed with what seemed like less than maximum power or alacrity.
[NOTE 11SK: ( 1) Emptying the Harris required 368 boatloads, and was completed on the afternoon of 11 November (D plus 3). The Lakehurst suffered a jammed derrick and thus got all the medium tanks ashore only after being at the pier about forty-eight hours. Ltr, Patton to Marshall, 15 Nov 42. Copy in OPD Exec 8, Bk. 7, Tab 5. (2) Patton Diary, 11 Nov 42.]
Reinforcements for the Safi garrison were first sighted on the highway from Marrakech at 1350 hours, 9 November. One section in fourteen trucks had almost reached the Bou Guedra crossroads, fifteen miles east of Safi, before being strafed by the planes from the Santee. Planes from the Santee dispersed a second and larger group of perhaps forty trucks at about 1600, ten miles east of Bou Guedra. Near Chemaia, forty miles southeast of Safi, a third section consisting not only of trucks but also of horse-drawn vehicles and foot soldiers was observed and attacked about an hour later. [NOTE 6-11JH] While these air attacks were delaying the French advance, the 1st Armored Landing Team's tanks and artillery
Navy scout observation plane is taken aboard.
which had already come ashore were dispatched under command of Lieutenant Colonel W. M. Stokes to intercept the column. First contact was reported at 1700, one and a half miles east of Bou Guedra. Colonel Stokes's force eliminated a French machine gun outpost there, took the bridge, and continued the advance until sunset. Mines along the road knocked out one American tank. The Americans bivouacked that night east of Bou Guedra and prepared for a morning battle. The French occupied defensive artillery positions commanding the passes in the foothills farther east, and waited.
[NOTE 6-11JH: This column was later identified as consisting of: the 11 th Separate Squadron of the African Chuseun; lit Battalion (seven 75·mm. guns). Moroccan Colonial Artillery; 2nd Battalion (two companies only), 2nd Regiment of Foreign Legion Infantry; and Stair. Regimental Company. and 1st Battalion of the 2nd Moroccan Tirailleun Regiment. all under the command of Colonel Paris. Journal of Action. of the High Command of Moroccan Troops. 8-11 Nov 42. Copy in WTF Final Rpt. G-2 Annex, Item 11.]
When contact was resumed next morning, over three hundred 105-mm. shells were fired on the French artillery in the hills. The French replied for a time, revealing enough strength to promise a substantial engagement before progress toward Marrakech could be resumed. A determined attack with all elements of the armored force could have defeated the French only at somecost in casualties and delays. General Harmon's orders specified that he should undertake operations against the Marrakech garrison only to guarantee security to the beachhead at Safi and to his line of communications to the north. The principal need for his medium tanks was against the city of Casablanca, 140 miles away. General Harmon himself surveyed the situation at Bou Guedra while the last tanks were being swung to the pier from the seatrain, and learned from the interrogation of prisoners that the French column had been deprived of its mobility by the previous day's air and ground action. He concluded that the 47th Combat Team, with its light tanks of Company B, 70th Tank Battalion, could contain the enemy and protect the unloading operations at Safi while the armored column disengaged after dark and started for Casablanca via Mazagan. Late that afternoon, when the medium tanks were all ashore, he issued orders for the night march. It might still be possible to contribute to the capture of Casablanca.
The Armored Force Starts Toward Casablanca
At 0900, 10 November, Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division, began its march north from the vicinity of Bou Guedra over the road leading to Mazagan. Along the coast, the Philadelphia, Cowie, and Knight started for Mazagan about 1930 to furnish fire support for the armored column there. The Bernadou and Cole, laden with men, ammunition, and supplies, each escorting six landing craft which carried gasoline in cans, departed that same evening to bring supplementary fuel and ammunition for the armored vehicles. The forces by land and sea made steady, uneventful progress beneath a starlit sky.
The armored column halted at 0430, November, three miles south of Mazagan, where the garrison was understood to be friendly and weak. Actually, it had been depleted by sending reinforcements to Casablanca. The bridge across the steep-sided Oum er Rbia river valley was intact and apparently not defended, but the principal crossing at Azemmour, twelve miles northeast of Mazagan, was believed to be strongly guarded by artillery, including antitank guns, and by infantry. The first step was to secure Mazagan and the next to cross the river at Azemmour, with a minimum of delay.
A reconnaissance force entered Mazagan without challenge about 0600, thus suggesting that capture of the town would be easy. The armored force south of Mazagan therefore divided, the medium tank battalion and one artillery battery going directly to seize the Azemmour bridge while the light tanks and another battery entered Mazagan.
About 0730, the Azemmour bridge was found to be undefended. At the same time, planes from the cruiser Philadelphia and from the carrier Santee began to drone over Mazagan while tanks rumbled along its streets. Quickly and without a fight, the garrison made a formal surrender.
Port and town were secured, but imperfect communication between General Harmon and Admiral Davidson left the latter for a time in some suspense. At 0850, a radio warning-"Stop bombing over Mazagan. No fight if no bombs" -indicated that his naval fire support would not be required. About an hour later, General Harmon's report of the earlier French surrender at 0745 was received by those on the Philadelphia.
The surrender of Mazagan, indeed, was made at the same time that Casablanca itself ceased all resistance to the American forces by which it was being encircled. Admiral Hewitt's instruction to withhold the bombardment of Casablanca was overheard on the Philadelphia at 0710. Dispatches were sent from that cruiser to General Harmon by seaplane somewhat later, and Combat Command B, 2nd Armored Division, was assembling southwest of Azemmour when the need to hurry northward to Casablanca came to an end.
Rather abruptly, then, Sub-Task Force BLACKSTONE'S principal mission terminated without the final stage of commitment to battle in the vicinity of Casablanca. When General Nogues signified the readiness of Casablanca to cease resistance, the American armored force was not poised at the edge of the great city. It was more than fifty miles away, in the vicinity of Azemmour and Mazagan. Most of the tanks had not yet crossed the river. General Harmon's force had prevented the reinforcement of Casablanca, and of Safi itself, from Marrakech.
While its armored elements had been moving to the position which they reached by sunrise on 11 November (D plus 3), the larger force at Fedala (Sub-Task Force BRUSHWOOD), with the Center Attack Group of the Western Naval Task Force, had been engaged in operations controlled by the fact that they were in much closer proximity to the ultimate objective. And farther north, the airfield at Port-Lyautey had come into American possession. From the operations of the Safi force, the story turns therefore to the battles nearer Casablanca during the same period.
SOURCE: Northwest Africa: Seizing The Initiative In The West; by George F. Howe (United States Army Center of Military History)
World war Two: North Africa (2-6); Taking Safi
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Older women who took aspirin at least twice a week had a lower risk of developing melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, a new study finds.
The study, published in the journal Cancer, looked at melanoma in about 60,000 Caucasian women ages 50 to 79, reported National Public Radio (NPR). (Researchers focused on light-skinned people because they're at the highest risk for this type of cancer.)
Over a 12-year period – and after controlling for risk factors like tanning and low use of sunscreen – women who took aspirin at least twice a week had a 21 percent lower risk of developing melanoma, researchers found.
"We're really excited aspirin could be used as a potential preventive agent for melanoma," study coauthor Jean Tang, M.D., of Stanford University Medical School, told NPR. "In terms of cancer prevention, a lower melanoma risk by 20 percent is very large and significant."
A 20 percent drop is significant, but to put things in perspective, only 548 women, or less than 1 percent of the 60,000, actually developed melanoma. A 20 percent overall decrease meant about 100 fewer women in the study got skin cancer. But if you consider that there are an estimated 50 million postmenopausal women in the U.S., aspirin may protect about 100,000 from getting melanoma.
The protection did appear to be cumulative – the longer the women took aspirin, the lower their rate of getting the potentially fatal skin cancer. Those who had used aspirin for one to four years had an 11 percent reduction in risk, as compared with 30 percent among those who had taken aspirin for five or more years, according to Time magazine.
This is the latest in a growing list of studies suggesting that inexpensive, over-the-counter aspirin lowers the risk of many cancers, including colon, breast, esophageal, stomach, prostate, bladder and ovarian, said NPR.
Still, the fact that there's an association between women who regularly take aspirin and a lower occurrence of skin cancer doesn't mean researchers understand exactly how or why aspirin seems to have this effect – or even if it really does.
Tang thinks it may be because aspirin reduces the inflammation that can cause cancer cells to grow more aggressive. Others surmise that aspirin's impact is linked to the drug's effect on platelets, the blood component that causes clotting, an effect that other anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen don't have.
But Eric Jacobs, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, noted that the research on melanoma and aspirin has been mixed: "There've been about eight studies that have looked at melanoma, and about half of them find slightly lower risk, and half find no connection at all," he told NPR. He also warned that aspirin is "a real drug with real side effects. It can cause serious and even fatal stomach bleeding, even at low doses."
If your doctor OKs taking a small amount of aspirin regularly, Randall Harris, M.D., of Ohio State University, who has done research on aspirin and breast cancer, believes this regimen can have anti-cancer effects. "You don't need to take too much," he told NPR, just one tablet a couple of times a week.
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Teixeira is out of contract in the summer and Liverpool are ahead of a number of top European clubs after reportedly making an £850,000 bid.
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Liverpool have also been linked with Ghana Under-20 midfielder Mumuni Abubakar but Dalglish denied any knowledge of that deal.
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Another edition of HELPING OUT OUR READERS!
>>>One of my listeners on The FLip Side sent me an email to ask if I recognized a song. It's not the normal "cheek to cheek" song by Fred Astaire. I don't have the record, so I'm hoping one of your forgotten hits members will recognize it. See below, and thanks!
(Mr. C)
>>>I have been searching desperately for a song that was a flip-side of a 45 back in the early 60's (around 1962 or 63). The name of the song is "Cheek to Cheek" and the lyrics I remember are: "Cheek to cheek, I want to dance with you. Arm in arm (or could be "hand in hand") Just like we used to do. Day by day, (day for day?) There's no reason for this broken heart." It was done by a girl group. I thought perhaps it was the flip side of "Tell Him" by The Exciters, but that's "Hard Way to Go" ... so now I'm stumped. Can you help? Thanks! (Liz)
>>>Have at it, readers ... let's see what you can come up with! (kk)
>>>Kent, the version Liz is seeking might well be the flip side of "What Are Boys Made Of" by the Percells on ABC-Paramount from 1963. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy to share. Perhaps another FH member has the 45? (Randy Price)
>>>This was on ABC-Paramount 10401-B in 1963. (Tom Diehl)
Well KK,
I have a very happy listener! I sent the mp3 to Liz and just got an email saying that this IS the song she remembered from many years ago. I'll plan to play it on my show on September 7, with a another plug for ForgottenHits.com!! Thanks again for your help ... your FH members really came through! And a big thanks to Randy Price and Tom Diehl, who helped track this one down.
Mr. C
WTG, FH Team!!! You've done it again! (kk)
Here is an incredible email we received last week:
My name is Dick Monda and I wrote "Soul Drippin's" and "Drown In My Broken Dreams".
I just wanted to thank Jimy for his incredible readings of my songs.
It changed my life and gave me the impetus to go on with my career.
-Dick Monda, 8/24/10
Thank-you Dick! This Saturday's performance will be dedicated to you.
Jimy Rogers, Joan Gand and the Mauds
Thanks for sharing, guys! Interestingly enough, we broke the story about Dick Monda several weeks ago right here in Forgotten Hits after we heard him being interviewed on Jim Shea's Y103.9 Radio Program. (Scroll back to July 3rd). Monda is BEST known to musical audiences as Daddy Dewdrop ... it was under THAT name that he scored a Top Five Hit with the novelty tune "Chick-A-Boom" back in 1971. (In fact, we invited him to talk with us further on The Forgotten Hits Web Page but never heard back.) You can catch the complete story here (kk):
'60's FLASHBACK:
I just happened to catch Jim Shea interviewing Daddy Dewdrop the other morning on Y103.9 ... what an interesting background this guy has had ... I had NO idea!!! (I guess I've always just thought of "Chick-A-Boom" as one of those great, one-hit wonders ... I mean, I've ALWAYS loved the song ... and played it non-stop back in the day ... but I never realized how far back the career of Richard Monda (Daddy Dewdrop's real name) went!
From late vaudeville dates that included dancing with Frank Sinatra at the age of five (Monda's age, not Sinatra's! lol) and appearing on stage with the likes of Danny Kaye and Abbott and Costello ... to a lead role in the film "The Eddie Cantor Story" (he played Eddie as a young boy ... and even sang in the movie!) ... to auditioning for the part that ultimately went to James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause" ... this guy's done it all at one time or another. (But I was perhaps MOST impressed by finding out that Monda wrote The Mauds' big Chicagoland Hit "Soul Drippin'" back in 1969 ... how is it possible that I never knew this?!?!? I mean, we've spent YEARS discussing how a young Tony Orlando co-wrote The New Colony Six's big local hit "I'm Just Waiting, Anticipating (For Her To Show Up)" ... but I had absolutely NO idea that Daddy Dewdrop was involved with writing THIS Chicagoland classic!)
And The Mauds aren't the only artists to record Richard's music ... everyone from Tom Jones to Engelbert Humperdinck to Gary Puckett to Sammy Davis, Jr., to Kenny Rogers to Ringo Starr have recorded songs penned by Richard Monda over the years!
You can check out all the details on The Daddy Dewdrop Website:
Click here: Daddy Dewdrop Welcome
I wish I had known in advance that Jim was going to have him on his program ... I think Daddy Dewdrop would have enjoyed hearing one of my favorite "Grade School Frannie" stories from years back:
When I was a fifth grade elementary student in Fort Worth, Texas, our music teacher, Mrs. Mitchell, allowed us to bring our own records from home and play them in her class each Friday. Since I used my allowance to treat myself to one 45 a week, I always provided the Friday music.
One particular Friday, I brought Chick-A-Boom to play. My classmates were quite excited about this since it was our favorite song and we sang it every day at recess. I gave the record to Mrs. Mitchell, she put it on to play and then sat down at her desk to read Good News For Modern Man, which was not out of the ordinary back in 1971 Texas.
Mrs. Mitchell was engrossed in her bible studies and not paying much attention during the opening of the doors 1 and 2 in the song, so she did not hear of the bikini parts located behind each door. At the point of, "I opened the third door ... " my whole class sang as loud as they could, " ... and she whispered so sexy and low ... oooooo!!" THAT caught Mrs. Mitchell's attention and she jumped up, went to the record player, removed the record and exclaimed, 'Frances Elizabeth..you are never again to bring such dirtiness to my classroom ever again! This is not the way of our Savior!" She then sealed the record in a manila envelope, taped the back shut, and put my mother's name on the front. That was also the end of Friday Record Day, and we went back to singing Waltzing Matilda and My Grandfather's Clock.-- Frannie Kotal
LOL ... I LOVE it!!! One of my favorite childhood stories from Frannie's adolescence!!! (Not sure which left deeper emotional scars ... the lyrics to "Chick-A-Boom" or Mrs. Mitchell's reaction to them!!! lol) kk
>>>Hi Kent,
My name is Murray Walding. I'm a writer from Australia and I'm doing some research on sixties night clubs in Melbourne, Victoria.
I'm trying to find out anything about a really obscure track that got minimal airplay out here around 1965. I don't even know the title but its refrain went along the lines of - 'We're not movie stars, We're just the boys with the big guitars.' (Ka-Chang!!!) I always felt that it might have been a Boyce and Hart song ... does it ring any bells with you? Maybe I'm looking for something that's so obscure that its only in my memory banks, however I recall the song as being sung by a duo with a name reminiscent of Boyce and Hart.
I do recall talking to other kids at school about the track and there was a general consensus that it would be a hit. Guess we were wrong about that. There also may have been a clip shown on local television in Melbourne Australia, and again my guess is around 1965.
Any info would be great.
Kindest Regards,
Murray Walding,
Noosaville -- Australia
>>>Not off the top of my head ... but let's run it up The Forgotten Hits Flagpole and see what comes back. Thanks, Murray! (kk)
This was issued in Australia, on W&G WG-S-1948. It was also issued in America on the Ford record label.
This copy isn't the greatest but it was the only one I could find ... it certainly is better than nothing!
Chip Taylor and Ted Daryll were the Town and Country Brothers.
The Town And Country Brothers - The Boys With The Big Guitars.mp3
Tom Diehl
Hmmm ... must have missed this one in the Chip Taylor Series we ran a few years ago! Thanks, Tom ... hadn't heard this one before ... and I can see why there might have been some confusion with Boyce and Hart ... it DOES sound quite a bit like them! (kk)
On this Labor Day weekend, about the only record I can think of to get out and play is Herb Alpert's 1966 recording of THE WORK SONG.
Also, I don't know if you remember it or if it was playing on your favorite rock and roll station at the time, but there was an alternate vocal version. It didn't chart nationally, I believe, but it was by the Bobby Vee sound-alike, Trade "THAT STRANGER USED TO BE MY GIRL" Martin on RCA.
Larry Neal
The Wax Museum
The Herb Alpert instrumental was the big hit version of this song ... it reached #18 on The Billboard Chart in The Summer of 1966. (The tune dates back to 1960 and was written by jazz great Nat Adderley, who played in his brother Julian's combo for years. Julian, of course, was better known as "Cannonball Adderley" and he charted with the first pop hit version of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a #11 instrumental hit that would go on to even greater success when Chicago's own Buckinghams added vocals, taking it from jazz to blues to pop!)
Going back to "The Work Song", it was recorded as a vocal track by a number of artists at the time. (The one I'm most familiar with is Bobby Darin's rendition.) Trade Martin is a regular Forgotten Hits Reader ... so I asked him about HIS version (kk) ...
Kent ...
Larry is correct about my RCA vocal version of the Ramsey Clark Work Song recording (I don't believe Herb's recording was as extensive as Ramsey's was.) Mine never charted ... but the DJs liked it (including my buddy Murry the K) so it was a moderate turntable hit.
My record is tagged as a big 'Northern Soul' sound in England. I don't have an mp3 of my Work Song version (I've since enhanced, re-recorded and mixed some of it) but I'm sure someone out there has it. At times, I see it available on Ebay and I believe it's definitely on YOUTUBE.
At that time, Kent, I had the ONLY special deal to be able to arrange and produce myself as an artist without answering to any A&R man there. Besides being an RCA artist, they were trying to hire me for some pretty interesting money as one of their A&R directors at the time. I still had my own label, and didn't want to be tied to them in a corporate capacity.
And yes, one other thing, (I'm not sure if he likes mine) but I love all the Bobby Vee records ... still, I've never heard anyone say that we even 'slightly' sounded alike. With all due respect, Larry may have our vocal sounds mixed up. Actually, Bobby and I are both very close friends with Rewind's Jimmy Jay. Jimmy and I do a weekly talk show, "TODAY IN NEWS", on Monday afternoons (not on Labor Day) at approximately 3:35 pm EST on KAHI 950 AM out of Auburn, California, with the lovely Mary Jane Popp which follows the LAURA INGRAHAM program. It's a very controversial, humorous and informative show. You can Google it on line and hear us LIVE …. or use the link provided here: http://www.kahi.com/
Keep in touch and warmest regards,
PS ... Kent, my latest 'political' recording (with over 180,000 hits on YOUTUBE in three weeks) is titled, "WE'VE GOT TO STOP THE MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO."
Click here: YouTube - "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero"
In the meantime ... Steve Malzberg said he will debut my latest record (title is secret until tomorrow) on his #1 drive-time show Tuesday (tomorrow) between 4 and 6 pm on WOR in New York. WOR streams on line. Please listen if you can. THANKS...!!!
Best regards,
Thanks, Trade. We ran a link for your Mosque video a week ago or so ... congrats on the new single ... and thanks for the info on "The Work Song" ... we appreciate it! (kk)
A copy of Trade's version of "The Work Song" appears today, courtesy of the ever-reliable Tom Diehl ... this is a really good version of this song!!! (Darin did a bluesier take when he cut it ... and I really like that one, too ... but I kinda dig this rockin' version ... no, not quite Bobby Vee ... but maybe just a little Johnny Rivers?!?!?)
Thanks Kent ... I appreciate that very much. (Now that REALLY sounds like Bobby Vee! And he probably wrote the arrangement and produced the session, too!) All kidding aside, thanks for getting the word out about my latest adventures. Please check these links out, too, if you haven't as yet. I think your Forgotten Hits friends will like them too. (And these don't sound too much like Bobby Vee either.)
Now how weird is that?!?!? Not ten minutes after responding to your "Work Song" email, I received this note from FH Regular Frank B:
Kent ...
Happy Labor Day.
I'd like to share my favorite "Work Song" with your readers.
It's sung by the great Bobby Darin.
Frank B.
YouTube - Bobby Darin Sings Work Song


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text: What are the top drivers of employee attraction, retention and sustainable engagement? How the 2014 Global Workforce Study and Talent Management and Rewards Study relate to employee engagement December 2014 | Belgium, France, Germany + 9 more IrelandItalyNetherlandsSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited Kingdom | Stephen Young Save Save Save this. Log in to access this feature. Saved Added to Saved Content. Remove | Subscribe Subscribe | Download PDF Author Stephen Young Director, Organisational Surveys and Insights, EMEA Towers Watson In 2014, we set out to explore employee and employer perspectives on current and emerging issues shaping the global workplace and the employment deal. Here we explore how the 2014 Global Workforce Study and Global Talent Management and Rewards Study relate to sustainably engaged employees. Top drivers of employee attraction We begin by considering the top drivers of employee attraction, as many organisations are finding it increasingly difficult to attract critical talent. For insight on this issue, we asked employees to choose from a list of the top factors that are most important to them when joining a company, and separately asked employers what they believe to be the top issues driving employee attraction. Figure 01. Top attraction drivers – employer view versus employee view As you can see, there is some alignment between the employee and employer views, and also some divergence. Both groups see the importance of base pay and career advancement opportunities, as these issues appear among the top three in both lists. Learning opportunities and the organisation's reputation are also viewed similarly, within the top seven factors, but not among the top three, for both groups. One clear area of disconnect is the importance of job security. While this is the second most important attraction driver for employees, it ranks seventh on the employers' list of these drivers. This particular disconnect is a relatively recent phenomenon and has worsened since it first appeared in 2012. At that time, job security was the second most important attraction driver for employees (as it is today), but it was rated fourth most important by employers, suggesting they had greater insight into employees' concerns than they do now. It may be that employers believe job security concerns among employees have decreased with a slowly improving economy, when in fact they have not. A second area of disconnect involves employers overestimating the importance of company mission, vision and values. While employers believe this is the fifth most important factor in driving attraction, it doesn't even rank among employees' top seven. This disconnect does not necessarily indicate that employees do not care at all about a company's mission, but may instead suggest that potential employers and only companies with engaging missions are considered for employment. Top drivers of employee retention There is strong alignment between employers and employees on the two most important factors influencing retention: base pay and career advancement. Looking further down the list, we can see areas of disconnect. Specifically, employees indicate the third most important driver is trust/confidence in senior leadership, which does not appear at all among employers' top seven retention drivers. This finding is consistent with a trend Towers Watson has noted before, which is the tendency of many companies to underestimate the impact senior leaders have on employees, and to overestimate the impact of frontline supervisors. In fact, both levels of management play an important role. Similar to what we observed in our examination of attraction drivers, there is a disconnect between employers and employees with regard to job security, with employers underestimating its importance as a retention driver. Figure 02. Top retention drivers – employer view versus employee view While attracting and retaining employees is vitally important, it is employee engagement that is the most consistent predictor of business performance, which is why an understanding of the drivers of employee engagement is so important to most companies. As a reminder, Towers Watson focuses on sustainable engagement, which includes three components: Engaged. Feeling attached to the company and willing to exert extra effort on its behalf Enabled. Having the tools and resources to be successful Energised. Working in an environment that supports one's health and well-being Figure 03. Global engagement segments Using this three-part formulation, we are able to determine the current percentage of employees who are highly engaged – favourable on all three components, and disengaged – unfavourable on all three components. Further, we can determine the percentage of employees who are 'unsupported' (i.e., traditionally engaged but not enabled or energised, or both) and 'detached' (i.e., enabled and energised but not engaged). As shown in Figure 03., current global results indicate that 40% of employees are engaged, while 24% are disengaged. Seventeen percent can be considered detached, compared with 19% who are unsupported. This last group may represent the biggest opportunity, as it reflects employees who generally believe in the company and are willing to work hard on its behalf, but simply do not have the tools to do the job or do not work in a healthy environment (or both). While it is valuable for an organisation to understand the current level of engagement, it is arguably far more important to understand engagement drivers or top statistical predictors of engagement. When we understand the drivers of engagement we can then focus on improving those drivers and, ultimately, improve engagement. To identify the drivers of engagement in the Global Workforce Study, a statistical analysis was conducted that predicts engagement using dozens of questions measuring the full range of employee work experiences. Those questions with the strongest statistical link to engagement are considered to be drivers. The results are depicted in Figure 04 and reveal the following drivers in descending order of impact on engagement: leadership, goals and objectives, workload and work/life, company image and empowerment. Figure 04. The top five drivers of sustainable engagement What this means is that, all else being equal, efforts to improve perceptions of company leadership will likely have a bigger positive impact on engagement than the other drivers. Further, any of these drivers will likely have a bigger impact than those not on this list, for example, perceptions of pay or immediate supervision. Of course, the results presented here are global trends, and results for a particular company may look different. A company-specific survey remains the only reliable method for determining the drivers unique to each organisation. Nonetheless, these results provide a valuable context for interpreting company-specific findings and understanding employee workforce trends more broadly. Save Save Save this. Log in to access this feature. Saved Added to Saved Content. Remove | Subscribe Subscribe | Download PDF


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A list of the books that I've read thus far in 2017 (and eventually, links to all of the reviews!)
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Missoula by Jon Krakauer – A fair and honest look at sexual assault in the 90s, and the failure of one college town to address it.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed – Like Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, but not quite as good.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer – The harrowing but strangely uplifting story of a tragic ascension to the peak of Mt Everest.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower – Five short stories and each one is fantastic.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith – A generational tale of different races. A little long in the tooth, but with spots of brilliance.
Me Before You by Jojo Moses – Yes, it's a sob fest, but it's still a delightful read.
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova – A dependably good book about mental illness, this time focusing on Huntingtons Disease. Unlike her other novels, this one provides more insight into the family, and a little less into the individual suffering.
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson – Cinematic in scope with evocative language that puts you right in the mist-drenched islands of the Puget Sound.
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins – A thriller with a very human aspect.
All The Light We Cannot See – Two sides of the coin from WWII; a blind girl in the siege of France and a soldier in Germany. Bittersweet through and though.
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens – Quick and easy read, and surprisingly engaging. Mystery, romantic comedy, and family drama all wrapped up in one package.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – Fun for the first 500 pages, but then a slog to finish it out. 3/5.
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – Delightful, light-hearted romantic comedy with a unique and interesting narrator. 4.5/5
The Circle by David Eggers – Technology and kind satire. Dependably good writing from a dependently great author. 3.5/5.
The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty – Not a romance, but a romantic romp. Heavy chick lit. 3/5.
Unbroken by Laura Hildebrand – Great story, but pedantic story-telling. Worth it for the message. 2/5.
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk — Do not read this before flying cross-country on a plane. 3.5/5.
You Shall Known Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers — Dave Eggers' prose is as wry as ever, but the plot meanders and there's little heart to this one. 2/5.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon – Starts off as a fun little fantasy romp, but midway through an overly long debut, it meanders into tired romance tropes with an unnecessarily disturbing and off-tone ending. 2/5.
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova – Another fascinating study of the brain. As ever, Genova's intelligence shines through even when the plot and theme are a bit tired. 3.5/5
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby – A love song for soccer (football for Hornby) sung with all of Hornby's regular passion. 4/5.
All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman – A weird pseudo-young adult satire, droll and adorable at times, just bewildering at others. 3/5.
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll – Hailed at the next Gillian Flynn, it's a good beach read but lacks the depth or sociological significance of Gone Girl. 3/5.
The Children Act by Ian McEwan – More proof of why McEwan will forever be my favorite writer. Achingly tender and sad by turns. 4/5.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple – A clever, well-written story with a few plotholes but enough heart to cover them. 3.5/5.
Station Elevan by Emily St. John Mandel – So close to being genius with a nice twist on the post-apocalpytic world, though it falls apart a bit in the third act. 3/5.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout – A series of short stories woven together through the strength and weaknesses of the title character – stellar writing. 4.5/5.
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline – Cliched and overdone, but a pleasant read with zero surprised. 3/5.
Redeployment by Philip Klay – Fantastic book about the aftermath of war – romanticized at points, but primarily realistic and with multiple angles. 5/5.
Fearless by Eric Blehm – A memoir not about what a man did, but who he was. 4/5.
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel – Harsh but fantastic. Possibly the best book about war and its' impacts that I've ever read. 5/5.
I Suck At Relationship So You Don't Have To by Bethany Frankel – Guilty Pleasure? 2/5.
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling. – A more enjoyable guilty pleasure. 3/5.
Kiss & Make Up by Katie D. Anderson – For teenage girls and those who wish they still were teenagers. 4/5.
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell – Compelling and horrifying – a dark memoir detailing stirring heroism by Americans and foreigners. 5/5.
Things We Set On Fire by Deborah Reed – A dark look at family, women, and the ties that bind. 3/5.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Too dark for young adult, too light for adult – fascinating narrative structure. 3.5/5
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen –
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Paper Towns by John Green
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Twelve by Justin Cronin
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Under the Dome by Stephen King
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Midaq Alley by Naguib Mafouz
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Still Alive by Lisa Genova (First Half) (Second Half)
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
After the Workshop by John McNally
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Part One) (Part Two)
Faking It by Elisa Lorello
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Husband's Secret by Lianne Moriarty
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz


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Get your message loud and clear – let it be known that you are a serious business that deals well and delivers well. For your business, nothing beats superior quality and excellent service.
When you have your business name or logo imprinted on supplies such as stationery, pens, plastic holders, and other items, people take notice. And mind you, not just of the items that you may give out as freebies, giveaways or presents, but also of the brand printed on those things. It shows that you take pride in your company, in what you do, and what your business is all about.
These holders in particular, are versatile and useful promotional items as they can be matched with and used for almost any other item. For instance, holders for business cards, brochures, magazines, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, posters, and other display materials essential for promotion and advertisement.
For office use, plastic holders are functional and impressive with nametags or IDs. Using such is an encouraging gesture to employees or staff that they belong in the company. You make them feel as if they are part of something great, something bigger. This is a way of motivating and appreciating them as members of your company.
Hold on…there's more! What else are so great about these holders?
For one, they have a clear appearance, which is a bonus for your business name, logo, and materials. The view is unobstructed and it gives people a good look at the materials and brand even from afar. Prior to the actual reading of the literature on offer, the lucid look of plastic holders already gives potential clients an idea about your business. Remember, your name and logo are important because making them visible associates your products and services with these two distinct signs of your business. Hence, the name recall, brand exposure, and generated sales.
Next, these holders, which are clear and usually with a matte, non-glare finish make scanning easier, as with the case of employee tags or IDs. No hassle, no worries!
These holders also have high quality, the clarity outstanding, and the price is superb! Plastic items considerably have lower rates, which make them ideal for budget-conscious consumers. Moreover, ordering plastic holders in bulks could still win you big discounts from your supplier. Absolute good news for your business, isn't it?
Visibility and convenience are paramount in selecting supplies you will and should be using for work. These holders offer both of these and so much more. They meet the functionality and practicality requirements of doing business, but they also do more in contributing to more effective promotion for your brand.


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JOANNE Doogan has found the decision to return to university and undertake a graduate diploma of teaching has paid off ...
Change of direction pays off for Doogan
JOANNE Doogan has found the decision to return to university and undertake a graduate diploma of teaching has paid off ...
We live in a modern society increasingly under surveillance. While privacy is a major concern, a strong argument can be mounted for more use of CCTV in our schools.
"Wait, what? The shorts are gendered?" I asked with surprise.
Like all educators' working lives, Bronwyn Nielsen's is jam-packed.
Maybe it is a problem caused by semantics.
Equity issues in the UK school system have been highlighted by an enormous study on parents' secondary school choices.
Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia.
From Devonport on Tasmania's North West Coast, Beth Blackwood has enjoyed a stellar career in education.
With recent research suggesting that at any given time around 20 per cent of our students are disengaged, finding ways to keep them interested and productive in our classrooms can be something of a challenge.
Dan Tehan is expected to retain the federal education portfolio in Scott Morrison's soon-to-be-announced frontbench.
The world's most popular assessment mode is the multiple choice test - but do they actually help students to learn?


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WATCH LIVE: Stephen Colbert interviews Bill Clinton for Global Initiative University
On Saturday, Stephen Colbert is interviewing former President Bill Clinton and hosting the closing session of the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University. A press release from Comedy Central said that the interview is to take place before 1,000 students from all over the globe who are participants in the Clinton initiative.
"I am thrilled and honored to be interviewing President Clinton, and I assume he is aware this is happening," said Colbert in the release.
Watch the video, embedded below via the Clinton Global Initiative:


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1.1 This test method simulates the application of an emulsion of a pesticide emulsifiable concentrate (EC) to soil with high organic matter (corn cob granules) and to soil with high inorganic matter (clay granules) and determines the amount of solvent retained by the granules, and withheld from the atmosphere, before and after exposure to 40ºC in a vented oven. The granules simulate two extremes of soil composition, and the 40ºC exposure simulates high temperature weathering. Solvent loss from organic substrates other than corn cob may also be determined by repeating the 40°C exposure tests with the chosen substrate replacing corn cob. The results with corn cob, however, are a reference that must be reported with the alternate substrate results. The difference in solvent content of the granules before and after weathering is an indication of the emission of the solvent from soil impacted by emulsions or solutions during pesticide applications using common practices such as spraying and drip irrigating. Analysis of the granules for solvent content is by high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), or other methods tested and proven to be accurate and reproducible.
Note 1—Since it evaluates soil surface sorption, this test method will underestimate soil sorption from pesticide applications made below the soil surface. Sub-soil surface treatments may include, but are not limited to, mechanical soil injection and soil incorporation applications. In these cases, the increased depth of the sub-soil treatments reduce the soil surface exposure and facilitate increased levels of soil sorption.
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MSc in Intercultural Communication for Business and the Professions
Our MSc provides you with a wide range of in-depth knowledge and skills related to intercultural communication. Its distinctive feature is that it enables you to focus on aspects of intercultural communication that are relevant to people working either in business (e.g. management, HR or marketing) or in other professions (e.g. NGOs, education or diplomacy).
Our core modules focus on culture and communication. They develop your ability to analyse, explain and investigate effective communication across cultures, as well as nurture your practical skills in intercultural interaction. Our option modules enable you to select particular areas in which you want to specialise, according to your own interests or career aspirations.
Core Modules
Term 1 introduces key concepts from a variety of disciplines, which have influenced the field of professional intercultural communication. You will develop an understanding of the notions of culture, identity, adaptation and communication management (and the relationships between them).
- Intercultural Competence and Assessment
- Leadership, Teamwork and Culture (*15 CATS)
- Researching the Workplace
Term 2 has two further core modules, introducing issues connected with intercultural competence, leadership and teamwork.
Option Modules*
- Globalisation and Diversity in the Workplace
- International Business
- Language and Interaction in Context
- Public Relations across Cultures **
- Chinese (Part I)
Option modules allow you to customize your MSc programme by selecting more specialised modules that particularly suit your interests and career aspirations. These often build on the cutting-edge research, which is being carried out by members of our course team.
You will choose 4 option modules from our menu, normally completing one or two in Term 1 and two or three in Term 2. You will see that particular combinations may be suited to particular professions such as:
- Business, marketing and management
- Human rights and resources
- Intercultural education and training
- Language, interpreting and translation
Often, the work you do on your option modules will feed into your major project or dissertation that you complete in the summer.
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How Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Work?
How cognitive behavioral therapy works is complex. There are several possible theories about how it works, and clients often have their own views. Perhaps there is no one explanation. But CBT probably works in a number of ways at the same time. Some it shares with other therapies, some are specific to CBT. The following illustrate the ways in which CBT can work.
Learning coping skills
CBT tries to teach people skills for dealing with their problems. Someone with anxiety may learn that avoiding situations helps to fan their fears. Confronting fears in a gradual and manageable way helps give the person faith in their own ability to cope. Someone who is depressed may learn to record their thoughts and look at them more realistically. This helps them to break the downward spiral of their mood. Someone with long-standing problems in relating to other people may learn to check out their assumptions about other people's motivation, rather than always assuming the worst.
Changing behaviors and beliefs
A new strategy for coping can lead to more lasting changes to basic attitudes and ways of behaving. The anxious client may learn to avoid avoiding things! He or she may also find that anxiety is not as dangerous as they assumed. Someone who's depressed may come to see themselves as an ordinary member of the human race, rather than inferior and fatally flawed. Even more basically, they may come to have a different attitude to their thoughts – that thoughts are just thoughts, and nothing more.
A new form of relationship
One-to-one CBT brings the client into a kind of relationship they may not have had before. The 'collaborative' style means that they are actively involved in changing. The therapist seeks their views and reactions, which then shape the way the therapy progresses. The person may be able to reveal very personal matters, and to feel relieved, because no-one judges them. He or she arrives at decisions in an adult way, as issues are opened up and explained. Each individual is free to make his or her own way, without being directed. Some people will value this experience as the most important aspect of therapy.
Solving life problems
The methods of CBT may be useful because the client solves problems that may have been long-standing and stuck. Someone anxious may have been in a repetitive and boring job, lacking the confidence to change. A depressed person may have felt too inadequate to meet new people and improve their social life. Someone stuck in an unsatisfactory relationship may find new ways of resolving disputes. CBT may teach someone a new approach to dealing with problems that have their basis in an emotional disturbance.
How Can I Find a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapist?
You can find a cognitive-behavioral therapy by visiting the National Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists, who have a directory of certified cognitive behavioral therapists.
Because CBT is a generally taught and widely practiced psychotherapy technique, however, you can also find a therapist more generally via Psych Central's Therapist Finder.
Can I Learn Some Cognitive Behavioral Techniques Myself?
Since cognitive-behavioral therapy has a highly educational component, much use is made of reading material in individual therapy and this has been expanded into a large self-help literature over recent years. Researchers haven't paid much attention, so far, to whether these books can be helpful. There is one study of The Feeling Good Handbook, which they found effective for alleviating depression. This suggests that it could be beneficial for other problems, in the same way, although this will depend on the severity of the problem and how long it's been going on.
Dave's Story with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dave is a 38-year-old gay man who had suffered disabling bouts of depression, on several occasions in his life, which caused him to make several career changes. He twice tried to commit suicide. He also suffered from a great deal of anxiety and stress, had some drink problems and found it difficult to control his temper, especially when drinking.
Dave was referred for CBT after a typical episode was triggered by stress at work. At his first meeting with his therapist, Dave already knew what he wanted to work on. He had a great sense of failure over his history of depression and what he called his lack of success in his career ('I've really messed up'). He was anxious about his job prospects. He felt unattractive and was worried about ageing and about further losing his physical appeal. He felt his angry impulses were in danger of getting out of control.
In therapy, Dave learned to monitor his actions and his emotional responses. He began to plan activities that gave him a boost and to deal with situations that he had avoided through fear. He learned to identify when he was being extreme or biased in his thinking. He became good at examining his emotion-driven thoughts and reasoning them out so that he got things into proper perspective. His mood noticeably improved, and he began to tackle longer standing problems. He began looking at job prospects, by planning a more realistic choice of career, and sending in applications. He established a more equal relationship with his partner. He dealt with social situations, without demanding attention and special treatment from friends. Dave had to face up to problems that were difficult to take on board, such as his perfectionism and the unreasonable demands he made on other people. But Dave was highly motivated by the crisis in his life to find alternatives.
This is what he wrote towards the end of his therapy:
I have had many painful episodes of depression in my life, and this has had a negative effect on my career and has put considerable strain on my friends and family. The treatments I have received, such as taking antidepressants and psychodynamic counseling, have helped to cope with the symptoms and to get some insights into the roots of my problems.
CBT has been by far the most useful approach I have found in tackling these mood problems. It has raised my awareness of how my thoughts impact on my moods. How the way I think about myself, about others and about the world can lead me into depression. It is a practical approach, which does not dwell so much on childhood experiences, whilst acknowledging that it was then that these patterns were learned. It looks at what is happening now, and gives tools to manage these moods on a daily basis.
The work has moved on to look at deeper beliefs, which can dominate one's life and cause loads of problems. For example, I have found that I have a strong entitlement belief [a belief that he is entitled to expect certain things from other people]. This is characterized by low frustration tolerance, anger, and inability to control impulses or be told what to do. It has been a revelation to look back on one's life and see how this pattern has dominated a lot of what I have done. CBT has given me a feeling of being more in control of my life. I am now coming off medication and, with the support of my therapist and partner; I am learning new ways of being in the world. The challenge remains to change these thoughts and behaviors. It will not happen overnight.
Dave is a man who has applied himself very actively to change. As this quotation reveals, CBT offered him much more then the 'quick' fix that it is sometimes portrayed as giving.


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Dan started his career at Videosonics and as assistant re-recording mixer worked on the feature films Alien vs Predator, 10000 BC and mixed London to Brighton, As You Like It and The Tournament.
He joined Molinare in 2009 and has worked on a range of feature films and high-end episodic drama. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for The Bible and an Australian Academy for Banished.
RTS Awards 2018: Best Sound - Drama for Bodyguard (Won)
MPSE 2019 'Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Episodic Long Form - Dialogue/ADR' for Bodyguard (Nominated)
Emmy Craft: Outstanding Sound Mixing on The Bible (Nominated)
Australian Academy Awards: Best Sound in Television for Banished (Nominated)
"Dan Johnson is one of the most accomplished mixers I have had the pleasure of working with. Dan's mixes took the show to another level entirely. I very much look forward to working with him again.""
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"Dan did us proud and did a truly excellent creative job. The time in the dub was greatly reduced as his pre-mixes were so good. I'm very happy to recommend his work."
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