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Coverage•ervice, with wir* faeil last minute development tag Taylor and every Williamaon county withspecial correspondents.Difly Ntwiptytr In WHfaniaon County Serving 19,009TAYLORTtEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 6^944PRICE FIVE CENTSSCALE OF MILESCapitals of Countries..........j®Canals...................ftying Distances In Statute MilesIflpRKNEY ISMy The United PressThe first phase of today s Allied Invasion of northern France apparently is going as well as was expected.At least two beachheads have been established . . .t Fighting is developing at more than a dozen points . . . and new landings are being m ide.Prime Minister Churchill announces that the operations are proceeding according to pla 1.I The British radio reported shortly after 8 a. m., eastern war time, that the two beachhe ids have been secured and added.[ allied formations are advancing inland.| \ The Normandy peninsula of northern France,II scene of invasion, is threatened with isolatino. And!I . the Allied forces are aiming at a railroad that leads!14straight to Paris, a little more than a 100 miles away.j• -Jmm The Germans—who tell of heavy fighting all;tel , along- the northern coast of the Normandy peninsula—say |*GKaMHPHHi still more Allied landings have been made and add thatPISTESreturning pilots reportI : | Pilots returning rrom covering flights during the first stages\ • (f the Allied landings, report that Allied air supremacy is complete.N|, : ! Moreover, these fliers and American newsmen who flew witti them,p : | say that our ground forces stormed ashore on the beaches without anym Second Lieutenant Wayne Stanbery, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., said:^ I “Fronv 4.000 feet I could see trucks and jeeps all over the beach1 GENERAL IKE EISENHOWER and more cdming. One truck blew up but that was the only sign ofThe Supreme Commander enemy activity I saw.”Incidentally, last night and early today—Just before the Invasion,v\ •••j I. —more than 1,300 British bombers hit the French coast with the niif'lit-iest air *lou of the war* The final sofl*ning-up blow before our troops I j struck. And steady streams of planes are sweeping over the invasion; area today, virtually without challenge from the enemy.! Also, British night raiders swept over northwestern Germany■ ..SSH0 : I to bomb the railway center of Osnabruck. jknfjprSandna • Eger sun dKristiaSkin#Aalborg ar.niftolstebroBelfastton'*•Castl.barThurle* 4r KielUibeckiWaterford•Witmar•SchwerinApproximateFlying Distances in Miles fromBIRMINGHAM200 Cherbourg BoulogneDunkerquepiPaimpolwSt.PolBrest St.Brieuc •QuimperPont I’Abbee Lorient300 Brest Paris Utrecht LeeuwardeeLamballRennes*#Ploermel400 St.Nazair# Luxemburg Cologne Ruhr Valley WilhelmshavenDeggendorfEN. BARNARD MONTGOMERY, rhe Old Fox,” in charge of the Allied ground forces.OrleansBloisW^ChStiHonAuxerre#I BOO Strasbourg Mannheim Frankfurt Brunswick Kiel Stavanger 600 Munich N urn bergLeipzig Berlin Bergen,:ll. . :.T2#Btberach KemptenFnedrlchshafen L. •FiissenGMMregenzI/i Innsbruck *erauneu uw#T«eyn*tefc»osenheim#SalrbUFQMunich
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