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First News From Paratroops Comes By Carrier Pigeons#(Editor’s Note: The following dispatch wassent from in vaded France by a correspondent of Reuters news agency by carrier-pigeon and has just arrived in London.)BY ROBERT REUBENReuters Agency Special CorrespondentBEHIND THE GERMAN LINKS IN FRANCE. EARLY TUESDAY' MORNING,—(INS)—Mighty Allied airborne forces spearheading the Allied invasion of Eu rope tonight are striking swiftly at German fortifications in France and are carrying on fierce attacks onGerman installations. .The airborne armada—greatest in history—filled the entire sky in this area and extended in an unbroken chain of aircraft back towards Allied Lises as far as theeye could see. # 1*11I leavily armed paratroopers screaming their battlecries have been spouting from this miles long bridge of planes for an hour, hitting the ground around me in fighting units and immediately beginning their deadlymissions. .ProLibly the first Allied soldier to land 111 the invasionwas Captain Frank Fyllyman of Syrac use, N. \ .t who ledthe advance airborne unit which drove into Europe onthis vital journey.
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Fairfield Daily Ledger

Fairfield, Iowa, US

Thu, Jun 08, 1944

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