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Horses too sloiv for fleeing nazisWITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN NORMANDY. July 6. (NANA). Dead horses at the roadsides are a constant reminder to advancing troops that the American bombings of the Ploesti oil fields have obliged the nazis to rely more and more Upon horse-drawn transport.The na2is drew heavily on Normandy horse flesh to make up for their shortage of motor fuel, using the horses in some ' cases for gun teams. Now the haste of the nazis’ withdrawal has obliged them, in some sectors to abandon slow-moving horse flesh to avoid capture by our faster-moving vehicles.An arrangement has been made to impound these horses until their rightful owners can be found, the owners to pay th£ costs of forage to the farmers who are feeding them in the meantime. Altho the horses were commandeered and paid for by the nazis, the system of retum- :' ing them to owners is necessaryto conserve the Normandy breed of cart-horses, which had been drained to the verge of extinction by nazi demands.
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1944
Page 18
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