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■S. {1'.ALLIED BOMBING AS PREPARATORY STEP TO INVASION NEARS PEAK; OTHER WAR STEPS SIGNIFICANTFall of Sevastopol Releases Red Armies to West; Germans Withdrawin g in Italy; British and American Navies Massing for Greatest Air-Land-Sea AttackHa(By DeWITT MacKENZIE)Associated Press War Analyst.Allied bombing and other preparations for D-Day are slipping rapidly towards their peak.That’s not in any way intended as a forecast, to compete with the Hitlerian astrologer wrho went on the air in Berlin last night and in gloomy gutterals announced that “the seventh day after the full moon often sees casualties and death. Next Monday is the seventh day.However, it’s evident that we are approaching the peak of preparedness. That’s true not only in the invasion zone but in all other European theatres. For this greatest land-water-air operation of history (“Triphibian,” the phrase-coining Winston Churchill calls it) is to be supported by the coordinated, all-out efforts of every fighting unit that can lejid a useful hand, wherever it may be.F/very thing seems to‘be gauged by its relation to D-day. The recapture of Sevastopol illustrates that point. There’s a victory which normally would have the world on tiptoe of excitement, since it has everything that makes for drama—a background of glorious military deeds, into which fit the “charge of the light Brigade” and the immortal Florence Nightengale, and now the Red army’s brilliant siege and capture by storm.i Yet we measure the fall of Se-i vastopol by its relation to the invasion of Western Europe. Actually the two events are related in a big way, for the recapture of this strategic Black Sea naval base was essential to the perfect functioning of the great Russian war machine which will come into full action again as the Allies strike in the west. The Russian fleet now will be amle to give full cooperation to the projected Red offensive through Romania into the Balkans, even landing reinforcements on the Romanian coast if necessary.Meantime the Red armies are j getting set on other fronts for the concerted onslaught against Hitler’s fortress, and the fall of Sevastopol will expedite this. In addition to the Balkan drive thru Romania, the Muscvites are expected to strike heavily at the heart of Poland from their line between the Carpathians and the Pripet marshes. They also may attack in the Baltic zone.Over in Italy, too, there are signs of Allied operations to support D-Day. The Hitlerites are looking tor offensives both on theiiCassion front and from the Anzio beachhead. Probably it was in anticipation of Buch drives that the Germans here pulled back and straightened their line in the Ida Palena sector, and so made it less' vulnerable. They’re getting set for the storm.Berlin, feverishly trying to check on the invasion machine, reports that the southeastern coast of Bnglaijtl swarms with troops ready to efhbark, and that a huge invasion fleet is assembled in channel ports. Of course, tho Allies don’t take the trouble to deny that.. You can keep D-Day a dark secret, known by perhaps six or eight people, but you cau’t hide thousands of Bhlps and hundreds of thousands of* soldiers.It needs no imagination, either, to believe that the greatest armada of warships ever assembled is ready for the Utane task of convoying its precious army of invasion to the hostile shores. With all the bombing that's going on it’s natural that we should get. air-minded, but we shouldn’t overlook that the American and British navies will play a mighty part in the adventure.Warshipr'will lead the way into the mine-filled waters, and they will surround the transports and barges. Their -great guns will be tearing at the Nazi coastal defenses in the most terrific bombardment ever known.In appreciation of the vast responsibility resting on the American and British navies, the famous Montgomery has made a gesture typical of him. He has visited the home fleet and expressed his thanks.OPA SETS WHOLESALE CEILINGS ON DRY GROCERIES TODAYWashington, May 11 lt;/P/—Dol-Iars-and-cents wholesale ceilings are being set throughout the country for “di'y” groceries which already are under retail ceilings through community-wide price programs, the Office of Price Administration announced today.Like the retail ceilings, the wholesale prices will be set by OPA district offices and will be in effect by the end of June, OPA ?aid, wherever uniform retail prices are in operation.The community pricing plan now covers about 97 per cent of all retail food stores. The dry grocery items affected include canned fruits and vegetables, coffee, sugar, cereals, sttips, dried fruits and similar itemSt-
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Thu, May 11, 1944
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