Sheer Guts Broke German Wall
Advance Allied dispatch explains German west wall aimed to delay landings for panzer concentration. Axis leaders reportedly expected days to breach. Allied success credited to fearless frontal assault on June 6 and overwhelming air and sea bombardment. Fortifications described as steel reinforced concrete with mines and anti assault obstacles. Reports of a myth ridiculed. wounded accounts detail mine fields, underwater obstructions, and mobile Nazi guns.
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West Wall
Oanitery Caeien
Mines marked fields prove fakes on Normandy beachhead
Allied engineers on the Normandy front exposed several areas labeled mines that were not mines at all. One location served as a car park and another as a cow pasture as locals explained the staged deception ordered by the German commander to impress Rommel.
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Henry T. Gorrell
United Press
Normandy
U.P
Rommel
Paratroopers Capture 800 Nazis in France
American paratroopers say they captured and hold 800 elite German parachutists in flooded French marshlands after three days of fighting. Lt. L. A. Barling reports heavy casualties as the unit pressed its objective amid machine gun fire and scarce supplies.
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France
L. A. Barling
Clinton
Mass
Marauders Destroy German Tanks Near Cherbourg Peninsula
A Crusader flight dives on a forested German panzer formation southeast of Caen. Bombs explode, tanks are destroyed and Caen and surrounding areas, including Bayeux and a Cherbourg rail junction, burn as American trucks pass through the smoke.
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Cherbourg
Caen
Bayeux
Allied push in Europe nears Cherbourg as Rome risks collapse
The first weekend of the Allied invasion shows early gains with Cherbourg seen as a likely objective to grant a secure port for troops and supplies. In Italy, German 10th army retreats toward the Apennines while Clarke’s pursuit tightens, threatening a collapse of German forces in the center and Adriatic flank. General Alexander nears the stated aim of destroying field armies.
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Europe
Cherbourg
Normandy
France
Eisenhower
Berlin
Rome
Nera
Tiber
Italy
Adriatic
10Th
Sangro Bulge
Clark
10Th Army
Appennines
Alexander
First American Dead From Terrible Battle Across Channel Buried
English cemetery in Brookwood honors the first American dead from the channel battle. Caskets in mass graves, a British steam shovel, and a multi faith funeral service mark the resting of airmen and soldiers. Flyovers salute as chaplains lead prayers and taps sounds.
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Channel
Howard Cowan
Brookwood
American Cemetery
England
Sumner Johnson
U.S. Ninth Air Force
Terryville
Conn
R. F. Grady
Philadelphia
F. J. Smeltzer
Shamokin
Ford Gilbert
Long Beach
Calif
Frank H. Lash
Navy
Clovis
N. M
John A. Moore
Lake Helen
Fra
German Claims New Cherbourg Assault In Normandy
German News Agency reports six American divisions attacked Cherbourg fortress from Montebourg to Carentan on a 14 mile front. Berlin says U S paratroopers dropped behind lines and notes a second landing attempt near Trouville was repulsed by coastal batteries.
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London
Cherbourg
Montebourg
Transocean Agency
U. S
Berlin
Carentan
Trouville
Seine Estuary
le Havre
Transocean
Interinf
High Command
Pont-L’eveque
Normandy
De Gaulle hailed as French hero amid Normandy liberation
Dispatches from the front say General Charles De Gaulle is the hero of the liberated Normandy fringe as the underground fights in southern France and reportedly plants liberation banners near Vichy. Reports from Spain mention a revolt sweeping central and southern France and clashes with collaborationist militias near Gannat.
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Ned Nordness
London
Charles de Gaulle
Normandy
The
Underground
France
Vichy
Britain
America
Spain
Gannat
Rhone
Saone
Lyon
Macon
Auvergne
Pierre Laval
Bayeux
Nazi Guerrilla Tactics Beset U S Forces In France
German forces employ guerrilla warfare and snipers to slow American progress in Normandy. They hide in hedgerows trees and buildings and infiltrate lines. US troops hunt the snipers and suffer few casualties as they stalk their targets.
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Don Whitehead
Associated Press
France
Normandy
Allies Use Mine Detectors to Find Nazi Snipers
In the central front sector near Nor Mandy on June 8 a First Division unit used mine detectors to uncover hidden German snipers. The detectors revealed metal under ground in sod-covered dugouts with trapdoors that opened after the Americans passed. An urgent note on ground-nuts in Africa ends the report.
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Lewis Hawkins
Combined
Allied Press
United Press
Normandy
U.P
Germans Surrender After Talk With Canadian Troops
Canadian officers and NCOs lure 140 German soldiers from a cave HQ on the French beachhead to surrender. Lt. Howard Germen of Drumheller Alberta recounts how a small party faced German officers, warned of survival chances, and led to the capture of 140 prisoners with no Allied casualties.
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France
U.P
Howard Germen
Drumheller
Alberta
Allies Press Across Third of Normandy toward Cherbourg
Allied columns push through a 35 mile front from Caen to near Montebourg as American forces cross the Cherbourg peninsula. German casualties rise with 3,000 captured, paratroops and engineers aiding the push while forward airfields open in France.
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Normandy
Cherbourg
Lessay
Coutances
U.S
Emondeville
Montebourg
Caen
Orne River
Baeux
St. Lo
France
Trevieres
Bayeux
Fallen Isigny
Carentan
Fallen St. Mere Eglise
Paris
Paris-Cherbourg
Ste. Mere Eglise
Balleroy Woods
Bertin
Missing Marine Ace May Still Be Alive
Maj. Gregory Boyington the Ma rine "black sheep" leader who shot down 26 Jap planes disappeared near Rabaul five months ago may still be alive a Seattle mother says. She cites an informant claiming he is on an island cared for by natives until rescue. Boyington 31, tied for the U S record for enemy planes downed before his disappearance.
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Seattle
U.P
Gregory
Pappy) Boyington
Marine “Black Sheep
Rabaul
E. J. Hallenbeck
Okanogan
Wash
South Pacific
Boyington
Navy
Eddie Rickenbacker
Joe Foss
USMC
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By Kirkel, Simpson
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Clearfield
Signal Corps
Gen. de Gaulle
Africa
Omar Bradley
Charles Lynch
Valognes
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery
Carentan-Valognes
R. A. F. Spitfire
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