European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 5,1994the stars and stripes Page 7 vol. 4 no. M daily newspaper of us. Armed form in the european theater of operation new York , England thursday june 8, 1944beaches Clear of enemy Allied graft keep skies free of foe Allied aircraft maintaining their 200-to-Onc in superiority Over invasion Beach head dominated the Kie Over France again yesterday at they Hamn Feied German troop concentration and unwashed enemy line of communication almost without Challenge from the Luftwaffe after a record Day in which the Allied air forces flying the staggering total of 11,000 sorties rocked the French coast with.22.100 ions or explosives at a Cost of but 31 aircraft us. Planes roared out from their bases at Dawn and on through the Day. To blast everything German. Although enemy Aerial activity picked up slightly yesterday at 3 pm the allies 4r a i. A -. V i r. A x twi. A a j v. 1 Uroic Moil of them Prew to Taigi Zuj Jyh Tsiun. As g a in in Nattiel had lost Only 70 planes since the first landings in Quot us Marty 10 flak. Heavies boost stir Caca eighth air Force heavy bombers continued their support of ground troops yesterday afternoon by attacking a number of Road intersections near towns South of Caen in an Effort to Block of possible German reinforcement. In addition to escort duty. Eighth fighters strafed and bombed Over a 40-Jo-Milc arc in Advance of Allied ground forces. Up to Early afternoon Only two formations of 12 enemy aircraft approached the beaches and had no Chance to attack Allied troops. A total of 20 German lighter were destroyed for the loss of he Allied Craft. Every Type or aircraft in the ninth air Force mediums Light and fighter bombers gave close support to ground troops strafing German forces and pounding enemy Supply and communication lines in a Belt 10 Miles Inland from the French coast. Fighter bombers shuttled Between Britain and France throughout the Day. By noon More than 500 p47 fighter Bombera had flown More than 17 separate missions Over the Cherbourg Peninsula. In tie Only reported engagement with the enemy one me4io was shot Down by a p47 12 feet above the ground. By uce afternoon Only ii fighter bombers had been lost All of them to ack ack fire. Concentrating mainly on the Cherbourg Peninsula the tactical aircraft struck to the rear of the Battle line hit Ting troop concentrations and All German targets sighted. Marauder tying As Low As 1,000 feet for the first Lime strafed German troops vehicles and Supply convoys. Havoc hit a German Headquarters behind be line on one of tote beachhead. Plane of the raft second tactical air Force flow front Dawn to Early evening Over the beaches and deep in France. Twenty three enemy planes were destroyed in missions on which the Raf also lost 21. Preceding the assault by forts and liberators medium bombers hit Rennes be mans and Laval three main railway Roemers on tie East West Railroad line leading into the Brest Peninsula us West of die Cherbourg Peninsula. Rounding out the greatest Day of air activity of the War the Raf on tuesday night struck another 5,000-Lon blow battering roads Sod railways firn 15 a it 4 3 Miles behind the Bridge Hejde. Thirteen Prcraft were lost. It was announced yesterday that he Allied air forces hammering rail Conler before a Day flew the stupendous tout of 71.000 sorties in the first six Day of june. So elective was the off naive Shaer said that before the landings 25 Railroad Budges and nine Highway Bridges across the Suie were destroy a. 1. Fly dry a off Hera in the aral picture at no Law Laga i frug. At top America mail Ryan Wade through do surf to the Thora while to the right an Fth transport from which they disembarked. Directly above a View from a troop transport a new a4 asm land la the background toll h a hug got boat whih has  new the coast defense. Air train 200 i. Long takes troops to France on an Aerial train nine Pianeti wide and 200 Miles Long that tipped across the Channel at 300 feet thousands of dirty faced Yankee paratroopers and airborne infantrymen Rode to France at a hour. And yesterday after the initial airborne operations the most Munive Ever conceived had gone successfully three More wave of c4? sky trains and gliders continued the Cross Channel a strike now French told by Algiers commissioner a Call to French patriots to Quot strike now with full Force and All the resources at your disposal Quot was broadcast Over Algiers radio yesterday by m. Emmanuel d Osiier French National liberation commissioner for the Interior. Quot Here Are your  for the decisive hour which has now struck Quot d Osiier said calling for a Campaign to immobilize German communications and harass the enemy a a a that every single German in franc feels himself personally in  shuttle in the Clouds flying in Many More troops and equipment of All kinds artillery ammunition food medical supplies jeeps gasoline. Ivie whole Cherbourg Peninsula was mantled in he White and coloured Silks of the dropped and discarded parachutes returning Pilot reported. There were More than 900 c47 transports and gliders from a score of base in the opening blow by the u5. Ninth air Force alone the British and canadians added others. In command of the Lead plane was it. Col John m. Donaldson of Birmingham  dumped the first paratroopers. All the 81 planes of his group which actually launched the invasion in continued on Pate 4 Battle rages at Caen the Allied expeditionary forces battling stubbornly to wedge open a Gateway to hitlers Europe through the Normandy coast of France made considerable Progress along the whole front yesterday in Spile of bad weather and stiffening German resistance. Supreme headquarter reported last night. It was also revealed that Gen. Eisenhower had visited this beachhead. There were these developments j 1�?All beaches Are now Clear of Tho Efimy although u is presumed that some of them Are still under enemy artillery fire. Some of the beaches have been linked together. 2-t.the Landing of additional troops and supplies is going of continuously. Jafor the second consecutive Day airborne Force have been landed in France and have carried out a fall tasks allotted to them and More. 4�?Allied troop have repulsed a counter attack Nea Gaeo ten mile in from the sea Between Cherbourg and be Havre an important rail and Road Junction Between Paris and the two ports. A 5�?although reports of Allied Progress Early in the morning were Quot disappointing Quot by midday they had showed a a decided improvement a 6�?resistance from germen air Force continued to be surprisingly Light Only two formations of 12 aircraft approaching the beaches up to Early inflict failing a. And commandos which Quot i to orc i. Afternoon end these casualties on Allied around 7�?ringerswere revealed yesterday to have played in import of pan in the initial assaults have functioned As special task forces linking regular formations which otherwise might have been uncoordinated. In Allied aircraft were giving Dost support in great strength to both land and sea forces. For be first time Allied fighter pilots reported attacking Tanka in direct support of ground troops and pilots were answering radioed requests from infantry units to attack specific objectives. 9�?enemy of est batteries still in action yesterday were finally silenced by Allied naval Force. Aircraft were used to direct the fire of he . Battleship Texas and the British Cruiser Glasgow wifi Mph with other ships have been bombarding Inland targets behind the beaches. Most furious fighting of the Enlil front wet raging in the Vicinity of Caen according to reports from Berlin and other enemy radio stations. Caen Center of a Bridgehead which the germans say is now 20 Miles wide and at kit Sia Miles deep was bombed by fortresses and liberators a Allied infantry and Srotor advanced to the immediate Vicinity of the town. The germans said More than 100 american and British tanks were being hurled into the Battle there. The British sixth Parachute division has taken Bridges North of the City Allied Headquarters revealed. At Bayeux in the same general Vicinity con Linurd of Page 4 eyewitness tells of Beach battling by James Mclincy u ruled a Rcd  somewhere in Anglano june 7�?1 have just Beard the first Eyt Wilnes Story of the Battle of ofic beaches a Story of heavy fighting untold heroism and supreme sacrifice. I it was told to me by Bert Brandt a Welt knows news photo Grantier who was Oft the Bra Cliea on the invasion morning for 50 nurtures and then spent hours More Cru Iii within gunshot of the bloody scene. Lii Rendl who a with us units told me irow Soviv of lire first assault troops which stormed use beaches went Down under a muttering German Cois file but More and True men com tied Octroi a Over it air bodies Ulvild a foul Iolj a Al established. Brandi said Quot it wis Hotler than hell Over liter. I was a Meuso but Anzio was nothing like this. Quot the romans Laid Down an intense pattern of tire on the beaches with ubi and raked them with Cross fire from Nia Clung Gurt emplacements. American Caiu Alnes were spotty heavy on some Bear ties Light on Oiler. A on one Beach. German machine guns wiped out some of Hgt a first men to tand As soon As the doors of their Landing Craft were opened. Because of opposition met by lie demolition parties which went in firm filler boatloads with heavy equipment were delayed getting ashore. But by the Lime i left Itte Ucac Mead at 3 o clock tuesday Fie noon the troops were i Only ail Ioie and beginning to Advance. Quot i doubt whether die German def Odets were caught by Surprise because they opened fire a soon As the first boats touched Down. The Nafis seemed to pour their big fire on one Beach for a while and then shift it to the next Beach while tie first Beatti was again quiet. Quot american assault boils went in at High tide Over huge Iron obstacles some of which were mined. When the tide receded Many boats were stuck on lop of the obstacle. A fair number of mine went Oft in the Witer and on the beaches. The whole Hung we so a  sight. Planes criss crossed overhead constantly. You never could look up without seeing it formation plane som Cafiere lightnings and Thunderbolt zoomed Rigau Over our Heads All the time Obi Itig German defences. A borne hosts were burning and s poll con nuts on Pat 4j riflemen Navy teamed to w in in Beach Duel by Jack Fowler Oran Ivi ulna non writ aboard the us Henrico off the French coast june 6 Deuce do a naval gun and army Rifle combined today us win on of the toughest beachhead the Auk Force have established on Tbs Normandy coast during the past ii hours. Us. Infantrymen who left this aaa Ault transport before Dawn this morning Sci determined resistance by German do fender. Pillboxes and Landing obstacles guarded the Landing area despite a trenching rain of bombs and naval Sheila. The americana crossed the Sandy Beach. However by late this a Fierova they gained lire top of the coastal Rise and were advancing Inland. Going ashore in an a cup a few hours ago i could Sec Long line of doughboy climbing the slopes end Only occasion Long Range shells dropped along the Beach nails held Fra a Landing waa almost impossible at two of the three chosen Points is our sector. When the first or our la via ground ashore at 6.35 this morning it waa h hour exactly. German gunner m concealed position held their fire. At the third Point Landing obstacle jutted from the water. Barbed wire waa enclosed in the visible a a Banc. Mine dangled from the wire. Wave after was of the americana come ashore firing Rifle end carbine. Nazi spotter on the Ridge directed mortar and Ilynn. Fire to the attackers. Battleships cruisers and destroyers moved slowly a Long the area crashing out salvos Agio so the Strong Points. Finally a . Destroyer a my in almost to the water s Edge swung about and blasted at the pillboxes tier fire overpowered the Nan guns and the Edvance began. Barking army rifles killed off the enemy wherever he came Piui lire open. In the Center of the Cadi was a Whit Bouse Quot frequently the forget of warship a guns. It wet set afire end abandoned by German snipers. Two Small boat cow fairs from this vessel fold me they saw a German Coin continued on Paft 4j