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Nazis Dig InAt St. MaloVicwithgeogi unt il out la Thlt; sion.By HAL BOYLE * draftWITH AMERICAN TROOPS tice NEAR ST. MALO, Aug. 6-lt;AP» fmilt;lAmerican armor has been t'nn'.vn m£ 1 against the last-ditch German de- *1 lt;»nt fense line around this historic fortress playground.I hfltA garrison of between 2.000 and * 000 German troops is offering the xv'0,.jn strongest resistance yet encoun- ,jona tered by the Americans in their ( sweep through the Brittan penin- Qniula. cupaSnipers are hidden along the sphe road from Pol to St. Malo, \ nch conti in peacetime was a fashionable re- area sort and the principal port along jeans“the Emerald coast”.The Nazis ha\e built a heavily tion fortified line consisting of concrete *v pillboxes, tank ditches, minefields,roadblocks and barbed-wire bar- mil it .. irtThe Germans have used the port as a base for destroyers and E- |10‘r(j boats and as a supply port for the channel islands seized from Britain nf aearly in the war. firevDuring the Middle Ages the port wha was used by privateers as a base tran to prey on British shipping in the of t channel and it is so strong that pervit has often been besieged, nut never sto med and tlt;? The f ntown is situated on an island of Ki granite in the center of Ba St. and Malo and is connected to the main- repuland by a long causeway. andThe Germans braced at Dinan 1 heand Dol briefly and the Nazis fled peofback from the latter town to St. barf Malo after a clash with the van- !fguards of American troops. with“This has been oiip of the big- uan* gest rat races in history, said Lt.Col. Harry E. Broun. St. Louis. nf n Mo. “We came 61 miles in 24 1hours.“We ve moved fa-’, bi • It pf‘i(hasn t been as easv as it might vpar look. We have had to fight all the r way- they have been waiting for arrn, us along the roads with road s; eblocks, craters, mines. ,guns, small arms and antitank*jng . guns. As for prisoners, the woods ;,ppnare full of those birds. ca i’With Rennes in American hands. jn tj St. Malo has become one of the chief objectives in the vast opera- jr tions to cleanse the Brittaan\ .eapi peninsula of Germans.'I'he American advance freed 12« dust Senagalese w ho had been prisoners \ sinlt; e 1040 from a German camp Gen north of Rennes. As soon as the\ ('jer; were liberated they grabbed un all will the old German weapons they ould fly11 find and wanted to ioin the Amer- T icans and kili all the Nazis the\ loot cou’d find. concom
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Mon, Aug 07, 1944
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