European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6the stars and stripes sunday june 5,1994 vol. 4 no. 185 Dally newspaper of . Armed forces3sj in the european theater of operations new to rect , England wedge Odar Jam 7, 1944 Therney rw2? Cue Roark Channel cwt fiet islands a no. Bui greatest umbrella for Landing armadas of Allied planes Hammer nazi targets unlit mini it Hill fury of Anglo american air Power. Allied aircraft yesterday bombed and unfed Mil after mite of French beaches seizing undisputed not by of the air and heaping record breaking Iceni of explosive on Nad coastal in providing he greatest umbrella in history for Iba invasion Force. Beira in Midnight and t am be Terdy alone 10.000 tons of Ioctl went a Madia Down on German target on the rout of i Irwinjr. In the aant period More than Al a airmen Nch including at Boma troop dominated the try Over franc. 1 wat tit Farmed that in a final Canku Lazion he number of a Orlini town Jomay would soar a inon Bun in pita of the Ati curing number of Otic flown by the Amend Conj Only 1 per Ora or the it Traft operating Wert it pie aident goom Voll announced in Washington to noon. Lammli stay int so sparse a Luftwaffe opposition that Moat airmen did a not in counter a Tingle German fighter. It of the 1,710 fighter plane which it i Chi mated the Nad can mutter to oppose the invasion put in an appearance. High ranking officer of supreme headquarter emphasized however that there was no Reaton to believe the Luftwaffe had been Defeated. Quot fighting of the greatest a verily it in at Ore before the Luftwaffe a wiped out Quot according to one air officer american Heavie flying three minion for Ilia cond time in four Day roared out at 6 am at noon and again in the mid afternoon at a con of Only four bomber. In the Strtt Dauault g record Force of More than 1,300 Forte a and Liberator wreck More than 100 get Sian Taipei on the French coast. Later in the Day a a medium Force of b24 and 617 fit behind the West Wall to Pound a defended German position most of the bomber in the second raid returned with their loads because the presence of Allied troop made it inadvisable to bomb through overcast. Another nazi wrong Post was battered on the third Mission. Not one enemy fighter in encountered bombing strafing and Petrolino fi4h, aircraft of the ninth air Force Weeva Alvr con in you by yesterday from 4 30 am covering the movement of the Iii de Force Over sea and a i1 beaches and probing Alread of the Landing parties for tactical Bjertnes beyond the operations zone. Starting yesterday morning with air Eit pug j a this was the invasion flying a amps writer files first eyewitness Story by Bud Hutton a a Al it Nam so jut whim St thousand be below troop urged Over the. Beache of France and against Hiller i Atlantic Wall and a the first Black Dot moved Over the White and g gunner said Over the interphone Quot Jesu Christ Al Ian Quot on the dirty dark Green of the Channel water battleships Cruiser it Itro Yeri and More Man carrying Craft thin you could count rolled steadily a a a a re word the Greci Field and the White Teheran set Landing time Wilh Stalin Sok Sayer or Washington june a paid Cal Roosevelt disclosed today that the approximate invasion time was set at the Teheran conf enc last december and that marshal Stalin wat completely Saiia fled wills it. Tbs precise Date however a determined Only within the last few Tours fir Tower than expected or. Roosevelt told i press conference that politicians who bad been demanding a second front for month would we now by i Haah had wailed the extra Lima had enabled gets Eisenhower to Hava Many More division and Undine Craft. A Lown the nazis had taken from France. Through a amok screen the wraith like shape o warship loomed a Montoni chame booed into Blob or flame a another broadside roared off to find Tome Weh Michi prong Point beyond the coast. This a the invasion. 1 North and South ail across the Channel and deep into the reaches beyond the con me bound coast of the continent some 7,000 american and Allied warplane flew in the greatest Aerial Armada in history. They drove the Luftwaffe from the skies with gum and with bomb a German gunner and infantry ram their camouflaged Strong Points beneath. Marauder and havoc fortresses and liberators Mustangs thunderbolts lightning and All the myriad Craft of he Raf filed rhe Iky until there wat no room for More. From a marauder medium bomber of Ceai Wirf of Page 4 Eisenhower a order of Day pm a a Quot Someier sailors Tad airmen of the a hied expeditionary Fane Kij rna ��?.? of . Imd which we hem str Crew re 7o of he world at a you. The hepcat Aad payt a of Liberty Loving people every when March with Yon a company with owe have allies Aad brother la Anas on Ether front Taw with Criag about the destruction of the German tray machine use elimination of Axl a a m Turof. And Security few Oor Sebe i. A and halite hardened. He will fight savagely. Sgt ppm Nai Quot Dis Jan to has Kappele since the Nad Hilum Penof iv40 �?o7 upon the cd War great or fee u in of bottle Man to Man. Our air ofor Tutvet a Leri Ouvry reduced their Stree thaa the is in4 Tholf it wily to it to Wir m it ground. A a our Home roots have Given us an overwhelming superiority in weapon w munitions of War and placed flour disposal Gretel reserves of trained fight a u Ictor free men of the world a March of Ogette w,.5�?��si, s a a a Quot a Ltd a a a a. A a a a Quot a it Quot a a a Quot it a the Der was i ambled to Asuit run write Afier their ii it a 1,1 Lark in it a. Rred by Cornu Deiv to All other i top to Itie Alisej lips Monji y Force. Opposition less than expected troops 10 i. In Iii de am Guppy ref by Mon than 4,000 Haipt and i i Jaxk War Planck storm cd the Tio Rivern coast of France in the Dart hour of yesterday Mora my to open the decisive Batik for the liberation of Europe Tod by Nightfall had mushed their Way ten mile Inland to Caen Between the Vila Porta of Cherbourg and la Havre enemy radio station said Beefy Street fighting was Jet Progris. Fly reaching Caen the invasion forces tiny have Cut the railway running a from Paris to Cherbourg main route for the Supply of Ffuller e troops of the Peninsula. German opposition in Ait quarters sea air and land wig Lea than expected according. To information reaching supreme headquarter and losses appeared to be astonishingly Light. American Navi losses were Only two destroyed and of list Landing ship tank Craft while american air tosses were kept to one per cent president Roosevelt revealed in Wahington on the basis of a noon dispatch from general Eisenhower. The president said opera lion were a up to Lowes of troop carrying aircraft were Eai remely Small although More than 1,000 of such planes were used Headquarters disclosed. The airborne troops themselves were Quot Weil established Quot prime minister Churchill had announced earlier. A and As for the Force which landed on the beaches adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay Allied naval commander in chief reported hat a naval ships landed All their cargoes 100 per he added that there was slight Kis in shop but so slight that it did not affect putting armies ashore. We have Gat All the first wave of men through the defended beads tone and set for the land a. Along a front described by he germans As 80 Miles Long from the Moth of the Seine River Elle Havre to the tip of the Cherbourg Peninsula american British and Canadian troops landed on French Mil from the Choppy Waters of the English Channel and from the storm studded Ikie. From 600 naval guns ranging from four to 16 inches and from massive fleets of supporting planes ton upon on of High expo in i thundered Inlo the Concrete and to a of the West Wall which Hitler erected to guard hts conquered countries. A a. The actual landings toot place in Daylight after in Aerial assault Oti the coastal defence which la i led front before Midnight to Dawn a communique disclosed late last night. The airborne troops however bad landed behind enemy position during darkness Between 6.10 and 7.xi two Nav of so forces one commanded by rear adm. Sir Philip Vian aboard has the Oiher by rear adm Alan Goodrich Kirk aboard the -s. Augusiak launched the it assault Force Ai in tiny beaches. It a on the Cruiser Augusta that president Roosevelt and Prim minister Churchill signed the Atlantic charter in August 1941, the Thiafi Lett air and a armadas Ever assembled paved the Way foe the deceitful landings. American warship Pertici Pilin included battleship cruisers and destroyers at Well As him Irdi of smaller Catt and troop ship Thiny a in aural Allied airmen not co Murti airborne Roap. Made a a it a Tinkom Road through a the ski aver France. Between Midnight and s am More than 10,000 on of High explosive were hurled upon the Normanly invasion area by Allied aircraft which flew t.j00 Ortw. Against i Aerial might the Luftwaffe wat Able to mount Only 50 sort Lett despite an order of the Day from Goenne that Quot invasion must be beaten off even if the Luftwaffe Gahler swept 75 Raki Inland without opposition. After an initial communique made the momentous announcement of the land in. Prime minister Church to gave the first word that the assault bad been successful. To a cheering House of common he announced Sori in alter noon if Al landings were proceeding according to plan that a obstacle planted by the nazis had been less serious than had been feared that the fire of Shore batteries had born largely queried and that airborne landings had been effected successfully behind the enemy line. Later after visiting Gen. Eisenhower headquarter with King George i Churchill said i a i Quot Many danger and Dii Kukie which appeared Al Thi Tim Usi night to he to Grimely formidable Are behind us. The passage of the sea a been made with far leu Lcy than we a spokesman Al supreme Headquarters Allied expeditionary forces Isha Efi declared Lis night that the Quot first four or five hurdles Quot m establishing Allied forces on live continent had been overcome and Ihil the Pont on of in Allied Ira Opi Dett Miely gave Quot no cause for pessimism no specific information was givers on the Tan dirty Poi i or Ibe dude. L %1 Refl to it <jtrnt,3ni to Tiye Moit of the detail and a Day long1 Cidy o report hmm German of new airborne and sea land a i Moil of of Ilia bet Tea la figmic and Cher amp org and Tom a Irbon Landing Southwest of Boulogne. Entry radio to Lattini ule in night Pam Ted a picture of growing Iii de Success with new beachhead established and i general spread ing out from to i Puieff we co Al la a ref Fie already Ortw Man Overeem new Agency uld Flat lighting a in pro Grey along the who Rel Mie to retch of Road bet Wen Caranhan and Calogne on the Cherbourg Peninsula. Pam mope Stablish we them Nivea on both tide of the Road and ulcer were rein forced by Glide troop. Use Agency added. Vichy radio Iak alled relator come a re Pooing Pioth beachhead and Quot ii Musaib admitted the aupied hut Ding area Lutwen the French radio Autira at Brazta-tconilnui4 on Page 4 late bulletins first us raft Tom bases user Sorum a whom. �?�7 a a first american sl1. Us. 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