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STARS AND STRIPESTuesday, June 13,' ••• •• * f- 5t.Stories of Assault%.£ **American troops punched 18 miles inland to capture Cerisy Forest above St. Lo yesterday and entered outskirts of Montebourg on Cherbourg peninsula, while Germans admitted fall of Carentan. Nazis also reported an Allied smash nine miles beyondCaen in move to outflank that stronghold.Stars and Stripes MapEveryRangerwho had been busted from staff sergeanttwo weeks before took the bangalore and blew up the dump. To do it he had tojump from shell hole to shell hole for theA Hero on thefirst 100 yards and then run across openground for 25 yards more.heavvHe was undermachine-gun fireandBoatsFailF renchBeachcominggoing, and how they ever missed him will always remain a miracle to those who*»saw at.By G. K. HodenfieldStars and Stripes Staff WriterA Ranger chaplain landed on our beach,one of the hottest landing grounds on the entire front. All during the time hisTo Stop LSTIn the ChannelBy Jack FosterStars and Stripes Navy WriterWITH U.S. RANGERS IN NOR-men were coming ashore he walked fromMANDY, June 10 (delayed)—“Over andone fallen soldier to another, giving first aid to those who were still living andABOARD THE USS LST 357, June Uidelayed)—E-boat Alley was a busy thoroughfare this morning, hut Allied escortbeyond the call of duty” is the Army My** a few last words for the dying. vessels fought this vessel and others in adescription of an act of heroism worthyof a special award. It’s hard for anAll through the hail of fire that rained down the beaches he did what he couldlarge convoy to safety in a running battle with German naval units.and didn’t leave the beach until all hisobserver with the Rangers to draw a line men jjafj crossed it to the comparativefor “duty” and classify those which are safety of the cliff edge.“over and beyond.”There was. for instance, the man whoseWhat is “line of duty” for a company-aid man? The Ranger company-aid menassault craft was blown up in the water, were on the go night and day, bringingLoaded with wounded, we left the French coast last night at dusk, booms astern told us that our battle-DuUHe managed to swim to shore, picked his way four miles along the cliffs under German sniper tire, scaled a 100-foot cliff,reported to the commanding officer of the Rangers, took a tommy-gun and within ten minutes had cleaned out a Germanin casualties, treating men in the field,carrying litters from one outpost to the other.Because they were aid men they were unarmed.The captain was standing in a pillbdx,wagons and cruisers were still hurling heavy shells inland.Flares shot into the clear moonlit night shortly after midnight, illuminating theOur escortseasy-running sea for miles, had nicked uo traces of the E-boats.picked up traces Gunfire flashed on all sides. At timesseveral individual battks flared simul-machine-gun nest.trying to spot a German artillery position for the Navy. He had radio con-He was killed later while exposing himself to give protecting fire for some mentact with a destroyer and was giving the co-ordinates when a German shell struck* *moving into a new position. Then there was “Pops,old enough tothe pillbox. The captain was heard to say,sergeant just old enough to be called “Pops.” He was cornered by the Germans not far from where some of his men werea staff “The co-ordinates are right, they check.”Then he toppled over.pinned down by a machine gun. The menheard the Germans ask “Pop” surrender.r.oThe two men came back together. They had been out trying to get a German sniper, but he got them first. One hadThey peeked over the top of their shell hole and heard him tell them to* •a bullet hole through his elbow, the other a bullet through his; knee. Beth refused to be taken back to the CP. Thev knewtaneously.“And I used to pay Brnum nd Baileyexclaimedto see a three-ring circus!John McDonald, QM3c, of Bellingham,Wash., a lookout.Once a terrific explosion off our starboard quarter marked the end of a Nazivessel. Tracers converged on it, apparently hit its magazine, and the craft went up in a huge orange ball of flame. Secondslater, exploding ammunition bloomedThe E-boathell.’killedgo toFhen he threw a hand grenade that three of four Germans. Thethey were needed on the line. They knewfrom the spot to all sides, went down in less than a minute.Lt. James J. MacLeod, USNR, of Oak-they could still fire their rifles. So they stayed on the line, that thin line of rifle-fourth killed him with his rifle, but he men, until the Rangers retired from theneve* lived to report it.Behind the German lines, but within« •position.view of the Ranger outposts, was a German “ammo” dump. It was well dug in and mortar fire couldn't touch it. ItWith the Rangers—and of this I positive—there is nothing “overamanddale Farms, Norfolk, Va., our skipper,kept his ship in the tight formation of LSTs. In the moonlight we looked likea herd of lumbering elephants.The wounded slept below, unaware ofArmy and Navybeyond the call of duty.”the imminent danger, medics and corpsmen worked among themWe had over a hundred casual-was too close to the Ranger line t-o callfor naval artillery.There was only one way -to get it-sneak through the lines, plant a bangalore torpedo and try to get back. A privaterounded Get BackWith a Few Tibs tocoolly.ties aboard, 16 of them Germans.While Nazi sailors were trying to sink us, two doctors were fighting to save awounded German infantryman in ourwardroom. Gangrene had set in and themedicos made final attempts to avoid am-
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