European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 6,1994 the stars and stripes Page 7 daily newspaper of . Armed forces in the european theater of operation. Vol. 4 no. 188new York ,, England saturday june 10,1944 yanks 17 i. From . Heavies continue to blast Reich Kunich hit hard from South weather curbs flying Over beachhead while bad weather restricted Aerial activity above the Normandy Bridge wad yesterday american heavy members Lew from their italian bases b Pound unspecified objectives in he Munich area. _ the now by up to 750 heavies Laded German Hopes that tactical Epport of ground troops on the consent would give its battered cities a spite from devastating air assault. It m the first american attack on Reich Breetie since mar 31. Considerable enemy opposition was encountered by the bombers at shepherded h Isih air Force p3s, p7� and  Bey few through Clouds to the key Tail enter. There was no announcement it it us. Losses late last in amp it. Bad weather Cut the scope of air Ali tiry so much yesterday that by late last sight there were few reports of air operations from Britain in support of the Normandy fighting. Low Cloud and rain Over the Channel my Over bases curbed operational flying to an absolute minimum in the morning but later in the Day conditions improved and beachhead patrol activity was resumed. Yanks near goal on Cherbourg gum reported Allied Stila landings town on Peninsula seized Allied units British and Canadian forces link up 15 Miles past Bayeux nazis admit single us. Glider takes 1 place american troops have made Progress on the strategic Cherbourg Peninsula and advanced to within 17 Miles of the key port itself r disclosed last night while 60 mites eastward the British and Canadian armies have joined up to drive into the City of Caen. In both Nectora thiere was bitter German opposition. The yanks with la Gen Omar n. Bradley going ashore from his command ship to Lead them fanned out from their care Tan beachhead. At the same Lime a . Air Force colonel returning from the front related How infantrymen from one glider captured the township of sle Mere a a a eglise Northwest of care Tan on one of i the iwo main highways . The glider Oil its course hit a Housetop and came Down on its nose spilling its troop and equipment All Over the Tircui. The . I room Faaa cd aut from care Otee Bridgehead. Srere of st. Mert eglise by glider troops to Northwest a officially disclosed. Yanks were within 17 exile w Cherbourg key port. A a Raf blk Cere Het target flying through Cloud and heavy rain thursday night Raf Lancaster and is lipases bombed railway targets South pm Southwest of combat areas. La in Effort to Block and disorganised be movement of German troops and air pies the Raf hit marshalling Yards a unions and traffic centers at Rennes fougeres ale Coo May conc and Pont m Bault the British raids capped e Day in which few Luftwaffe wet decisively beaten every tune it ventured near the vastly Superior Allied air umbrella. _ 4 seventy two or the Luftwaffe precious fighter Hoard were destroyed Thun-day�?51 in the air end 20 on the ground. Allied losses were five bombers end 31 fighters. Thirty one of the enemy plane shot but of the air were destroyed by eighth air Force pursuits. Eighth fighters Fly us 4,727 sorties. In the first three Days a i operations Over France damaged or destroyed am i Rock s. 19 Railroad cars 122 too Morin a a Quot to a 2 germae tanks 34 Gaff can and other vehicles 27 armoured a Chicles 22 Bridges. In Airfield bangers Aad other targets. Only 77 fighters were  ninth air Force aircraft met Little Ger uan resistance. Thunderbolts and Mustangs. No veg far to the East of the a out Bat tone  sweeps found an Mari fighters anywhere from be to Uruci 20 mile Touth of Boulogne to ii tacit. In Belgium five Miles West of the dutch Border. A thew Aroda 1 Assassin fails to get Umberto new italian Premier is named Rome june 9�?revolver shots were Fred today at Crown Prince Umberto while Ivanye Bonomi. Anti fascist who yesterday was named new prime Kintsler of Italy at a joint meeting of political leaders presided Over by marshal Bado Tio worked to Complete his new government. There was no official announce Mil on Sadoglio although it was apparent he had stepped aside the shooting incident took piece on the Balcony of the Quirinale Palace Here when Umberto stepped out to. Greet a crowd participating in a royalist demonstration. Umberto was unhurt but in the excitement Polk arrested the wrong men and the assailant escaped. Meantime Bonomi who served As italian prime minister from july 121, to february 122, completed the formation of his new Cabinet. Count Carlo stares a former foreign minister who in recent Yean lived in exile in the ., and Benedetto Croc Arill a members. The new prime minister was is anacin editor of the socialist party paper Avant before the lest War. He was expelled and succeeded by Benito Mussolini. Bonomi today expressed appreciation to Sadoglio for the work he bed Doss As Prim minister. However he said he would not invite Sadoglio to join his Cabinet Quot because there to no place for in of those who compromised with fascism or was connected with it. The new government would Sec that the War Effort continued end was of Teal assistance to the allies Bonomi said to far he added the various political pert is had caused no trouble. Red a offensive Justna jitters a red faced German admission that g soviet Quot offensive which they reported North of Jassy was Only a minor action Slier All spoke volumes yesterday about nazi nervousness Over imminent United nations mows Troy East South and West. Berlin s Rea Dineia to pronouns the red army s often Sims under Way betrayed i the enemy s worries Over the Prospect of a squeeze from at least three Side. A col. Ernst von Hammer military correspondent of the German news Agency who on thursday spoke of in Quot offensive on a Broad front a backed Down yesterday with the. Explanation that the rumanian fighting Quot Pei cred out somewhat after the russian attacks of the previous Day had been  _ Moscow seemingly taking grim Delight in the enemy s discomfort merely disclosed that the  had attacked in the Jassy area and seized an important height Al a Cost to the nazis of 200 men killed and several tanks destroyed. Froni americans make Progress France let Cherbourg Penin Nili Advance to within 17 Mika of a Ort. ,. British and Canadian forces pin for drive into Caen. Sheaf Tan ounce Progress on All sectors against wrong resistance. A a or weather curb serial act air a cd Jim Over beachhead areas a France. A. Few reports of activity bom Britain. Creation of second from fails to save Germany from a ids Strong forces of Italy bared . Kea Vic attacking Munich. Germans Bach Down on re a a a a porn of soviet Quot offensive Worth of Jassy Call it Only minor action ,. Moscow keeping silent to increase Many s jitters reports Only capture of important height in Jassy area. Fifth army 11 Miles beyond i Lute Civita Vecchia 45 Miles North Sest of Rome. Nazi withdrew along Adriatic puts allies in tollo stronghold by Miles Inland from Ortona. Fifth links capture Civita Castellana rail unction More than 30 Init North of lome. Liberators damage Jap Cruiser off new Guinea As americans mop up Lokmer Airfield on Kayc Island. Stilwell a forces capture Northern end of my Itkina Anfield to Gums. Nazis report allies 45 mind of Rome Tarquinia Falls germans lose Vil Carbo on Road to Florence Viterbo communication renter 40 Miles Northwest of Rome on the Road to Florence and Tarquini. 3 Miles Northwest of rom along the tyrrhenian coast fell to the fifth army yesterday As the germans began a withdrawal along the Adriatic and gave up the town of tollo 4 Miles West of Consul Orion. Capture of Tarumi which tha germans had evacuated Tew hours Jeantet. Suced tha fifth s swiftly advancing Spear tads ii Miles beyond Civita Vecchia the port of Rome which ill into Allied hands thursday. Viterbo i fall gave the Amiliea a Good Airfield at Well As control of a network of highways. Allied Headquarters Alio announced capture of tha Village of a Traun five Nute South of Viterbo off the Rotne-f1orek Highway. Almost Simul famously with the German evacuation of Tarquinia armoured a nit captured Civile Castellana Road and rail Junction More than 30 Miles North of eau ten astonished German Garrison troop rushed out of their billets and surrendered. Hard fighting followed in that Are however but the germans conceded an american Advance on mile beyond sic. Mere . Enemy report also told of junctures Between . Set and air born Forte on tha East Side of he Peninsula but claimed they lid held tha township of Caren Lan itself the Midnight communique from sheaf announced that . Troop had crossed the Caren Lan a Tognoc Road some observers suggested the Gasman would not Irelta and fight until they reached a line running Between fisa on the West Cox is and Rimini on the East Cossi a litre about 170 Miles North of Rome. Evacuation of Toulkt suggested Thel the anticipated German withdrawal from Adriatic bastions weakened by the Allied drive past Rome appeared to have begun. After five month or Little activity eighth army troops occupied tollo fairly yester Day hard on the heels o the retreating germans. The sgt. York of oratory yank talks 156 captors into giving up Pacific-1, a ninth proof Carrier com Mand base Britain june a How a talked 154 of i captors into surrendering to him. Although a we their prison or a the almost incredible Story related today by Cap. William j. Adams or Dornton pa., on of the first american glider pilots to return from embattled Cherbourg Peninsula. Taken prisoner along with two other survivors of the British Horsa glider in whih he Fiew As co Pilot Adams had watched his motor ass Craft destroyed by mortar fire a few moments after a Crish Landing through ire tops and into a ditch la prison stockade Quot when the mortar fire died Down tar a til i lifted my head out of a Hole and began reaching for my Nile when i heard a Boll Cikk. That s when i looked around into los air muzzles a Adams said. Inside a prison stockade lire follow ing Day he noticed slut his captors began abbe tag when they saw the american Flag on his sleeve. Marthall Arnold King in London from , Washington june Reuter a president Roosevelt tonight announced the arrival in London of Gan. Georg c. Marshall . Chief of staff adm Ernest j. King chief of . Naval operations and Gen. Henry Arnold commander of the . Army air Formaa. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told newsmen the three would attend a marring of tha bomb ind chief of Steffi. The meeting had been planned As soon As possible after a Day Quot w said. A a. Tape. We giant j. Adams Quot soon i found one who spoke a few words of English and i advised him that Droit or Tuc would Bio up the mine building if they did no to surrender  a Captain reported. A co operative burst of mortar shells a couple of minutes later added emphasis to i remarks. Soon the guards brought out Vodka and bread and butter and began getting chummy with their prison or Nark a Rokk with another captured american Para trooper acting As interpreter a polish Adam quickly Learned that Errott of itis captors were poles czechs and russians who had been pressed into frontline set vice by their nazi overlords. And the few Bon fide nazis in the group were growing sick of the War. Soon tit entire Kex agreed to place themselves in custody of their capture but they were hesitant about in turning their Oil items Adams instructed them  the three germ a officers to surrender or be shot. Reluctantly the ranking no to accepted the ultimatum. A a when our infantry came tip they found j7mrn. Cannon and Mac Turre guns tinplate All Over the area a and tax Sard. Quot so it saved us a Loi o casualties when that gang gave up below Cherbourg main Highway to the sort in several place and had Cut the Moed gauge Railroad that runs into the port the it to . Parachutists of fort Marouf an armoured fortress with a rocket biliary 00 the asst co ail of the Cherbourg Peninsula was admitted by the germans while fart radio reported that a pitched Beta was raging for care Tan across the neck of la Peninsula below there tha germane admitted that an Allied drive had gained m Mike South Westward from captured be Cua to within five Miles of st. To important Junction of roads tend Long out of the Peninsula which standi on a Rocky Hill dominating lit vote Valley. This would constitute in Advance Halfway Crasa the Mck of the Promontory toward court ice on the West coast where Sunborn troop were reported landed. La addition 10 Tbs Puah from Bay aug the germans said that a main Allied beachhead in that area had been Eiton did 10 a Width of 43 Miles and estimated that up to noon the Amiliea had 14 division in normandy�?12 bet Ween bayous and Condo Ltd an Page. 4 bomb damage a Jap Cruiser damaging of off the Northwestern coast of new Guitet was announced yesterday by Gen. Burma i t a heavy Jap Cruiser by bomb off i announced be Douglas Macathur while in Gen. Joseph w. Set Iscil a forces capt cd the Northern end of in Sitf told North of m Yil k it Ina. The Jap ship a the first heavy unit of live enemy 1 Fleet sighted in southwestern Pacific water in eve Rel months. It was attacked by .  Winch but Ltd through a swarm of Jap fighters. Other Amtius bomber hit tout and Cwak on tire Tvovi twin coast of new Guinea