European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday Juno 7,1994the stars and stripes Page 7 Dally newspaper Al . Armed forces in the european theater of operations vol. 4 no. 190new York , England Frt Nee tuesday june 13, 1944 yanks 18 i. In Gajentan Falls 1,400 heavies on one Mission re Cord Malle a Estuce que Vous j Vez a gum a by bombers Over France Luftwaffe offers strongest resistance since a Day As weather gears the greatest number of heavy bomber Ever dispatched on a Uncle Mission thundered across the Chu Isief to Pound German tar nets in North West France yesterday As the Luftwaffe put up its strongest opposition since a Day in their greatest operation of the War More than 1.400 fortresses and liberators of eighth air Force visually bombed its Bridges and is no Airfield. A shortly after the Luftwaffe began to Jinn situs of a determination to Challenge Allied Aerial supremacy the record Force of heavies shepherded by targe forces of eighth air Force p47s, Pis and fits heaped destruction on enc Tny air bases at Lille Nord Mont Didier eve Rattix Fiu Vilic Iviry in Artois Beauvais tilt and Drux. Not one enemy aircraft pierced the cordon thrown around the heavies but seven bombers did not return. Of to Tara smash earn transport the tighten in addition to their escort duty destroyed or damaged ii locomotives 99 railway can if trucks one tank three military buildings three freight Yards one rail Junction and three radio or flak Tower. The us. Blow followed a. Night in which Raf Lancaster and Kali fees battened rail junctions and a rail Bridge in a wide arc behind the Normandy Bank tone and mos Quiroca pelted Crlin for the third Straf Aht night. In spite of use Luftwaffe s appearance in Force yesterday the allies dominated the sir Over France and Pacli Miry reports indicated that a Day s record 13.000 sorties would be surpassed. Tie Luftwaffe appearing in strength for the first limn since the land assault began lost a six cab part of its precious fighter Hoard. Eighth air Force fighters shot Down 11 planet in Aerial combat and destroyed one on the ground. In three operations atone ninth air Force thunderbolts look a my of 21 German fighters White Pili destroyed 17 on the ground. A. Striking in support of advancing ground troops More than 111 marauders and Llu vacs Early yesterday smashed Road and rail junctions at aunty sur Odon la Haye do puts and Falaise and a Bridge is Conde sur noir Edu All ten to 21 Miles behind the Battle line. One marauder was lost. In i hair second attack of the Day about 12 marauders struck to the rear of i he Normandy Bank area at noon to Slop Ger run reinforcements moving up from ill South and East. Hoad junctions near Torgny cur Vir continued on Page s Allied beachhead now 60 i. Broad us. Fighters using air strips in France Churchill Samts visit Battle zone gains better than satisfactory americans troop battered the deepest Dent Yel made in the German lines by capturing the entire Forest de Cericy is mites Inland above silo yesterday and made further advances northward and Westward on the Cherbourg Peninsula above there. And is the end of the first week s Campaign in France brought the Allied beachhead into a single fused and firmly held Cristal strip 6u Miles Broad the seven highest Allied War leaders on this Side of the Atlantic visited the fighting front. Prime minister Churchill Wilh Field marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts Premier of South Africa and Gen. Sir Alan Brooke chief of the Imperial general staff went aeon on die British destroyer Kelvin for a three hour tout. The Kelvin joined in bombarding German position on the Northeast tank while the distinguished men were aboard. In another parly grit. Eisenhower supreme Allied commander Gen. Corw c. Marshall . Army chief of staff Gen. Henry Al. Arnold commander of the . Army air forces and atom. Ernest j. King chief of naval operations and commander in chief of tax . Fleet also visited the combat Rone. brass Quot t our beaches nazi defences Arnold King Eisenhower and Marshall see areas won 48 hours before i fluff Heffi part in Paol Nuci of Gary lad., Gavai a Akca of Gwo the t a Uloa Franck Giri i a liberated of net a stage. Ira a treat Law i Yeang Ilee. Thew a today Fri pc it is 7 Forest above or. To. Yanks also Lake car Tan and score advances above there on cow Bourg Peninsula. ,. Vermall report Hanking i up against Cam. Luika wide it end or lint week a a a lev. Lull Wylte putt up greatest Yir to ant since a Duy a forts and Libs greatest number of eighth air Foica bombers Ever sent on single mits Titt Lummer 14 it Imit airfields and Lia Bridges in France with Cicurel of 750 Tigglers _ _ finns retreating after Rui break through along karelian Tine. ,. Red army Paura link and infantry through Gap in thrust Tor port of Lipuri. J. La allies report German Mih army in Uva a comp to a dispersed.�?�. Nazis Rush division largely composed of russian prisoners to Stem Allied drive. I a. American Carrier Force i of a a n Guam ind Marianas. 22 Jap planes arc destroyed m attack on Palau in Carolines. Jap Coomer attacks Are repelled m Bunij. S amp s eyewitness reports the rangers join the cavalry9 astride seized German nags. By Burl hollow. Sura met Sulara tul Wei. Somewhere in France june 12�?the rangers scrambled aboard Tome German horses yesterday and became for a time the Only american cavalry in France after five Days of steady slogging it they spearheaded one. Wing of the Advance Down the coast through a clutter of Moody towns and a Bales of link crossroad a the Ranger battalion commanded by la. Got mis Schneider of Shenandoah it., came to this town. They had foil some of their effective on the beaches the first Day they bad lost More routing the bodies from one Itron Point after another. They drove the enemy away and the High command took a look at their Haggard Stupi inc faces and said the hangers pulled into the Edge of a Wood. Cap. De Luther of Boston and Bis e company started to bivouac but Pel. Mack Bush of Lima Ohio saw some movement in he neat Patch of Woods. They went wifi their guns and Bush came Back in a few of itunes a gleaned us up a few Jerries a he raid Quot and we got. Ghoul w horses. The German turned oui to be 1 horse artillery outfit and it was a soft touch foe i a rangers. When the shooting was done and the units bag of prisoners Vinca the Landing bad mounted past Mon Luther y unit was equipped with scouts mounted on German horses in German saddles and ilk re was enough Kyllo Lake care o the mangers other turns the area As every other area immediately behind the lines was packed with snipers however and aim started out to be a rest turned into a sniper Hunt. Cumi inuit on Sajt at finns Retreat t o Wardship Fri soviet tanks and infantry fanning out after smashing a 25-mhe-wide Gap in the finn a Sis foot thick Concrete defences Akong the karelian Peninsula poured through in an end test Stream yesterday is Pursuit of bewildered finnish garrisons retreating Row re the old Mano Cheim line before Lipuri. Sweeping Forward in the almost const ant Daylight of the Northern summer Gen. Leonid Godorov assault forces drove i to spearheads up the isthmus Between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga 1 one struck Northwest toward Lipuri. The finns port now ass than 4 Miles away. Theother pushed East in a. Bid to catch the remaining finnish defences from the German High command which a Cir of Page 4> nazis still determined to wipe out Jet a for Washington june ii apis president Roosevelt reporting on arrangements for caring for War refugees told Congress today i a i Quot knowing they have lost the War the nazi Are determined to Complete i hair program of mass a the fury of Lar air insane desire to wipe out the jewish race in Europe continues he said adding that Quot Many Christian groups also Are being my i . By Bud Hutton Sun Ana syp a suit Wner French beachhead. June 12�? the chief of America s army Navy and air forces top brass in All the service a landed in France today saw troops on their Way into action and inspected positions won by american soldiers a scant 41 hours ago. The four Start of Gens. George c. Mar it Nall he Quot v in. Arnold and Dwight d. Eisenhower and Shote of adm. Erchien j. King commander in chief of the Navy teamed in the Batik wrecked streets of Rigny and other towns where fires still shouldered from the enemy s demolitions. Three Star Genera la such As la. Gen. Omar n. Bradley to say nothing of two car personages were in the afternoon s Force of rank which went from the beaches Back through a Countryside which has been spotted with snipers since the yanks first landed. See Ned pm Roslta Kew they went into German gun positions saw at first hand the cunningly contrived dugouts and Enfil Ade Points from which the troops fought the invaders. They inspected the two main beachhead from which the yanks went Inland and a a noon Chow it was c rations the same As for anyone else. The big four whirled through the Countryside after a Quick briefing on the situation from Gen. Bradley. There was t much time for them to Slop and talk they were taking in tax whole picture of invasion. At luncheon Eisenhower waa a tickled to find hoi Miter Quot for washing up. And said so la Tab to. Aka Stout of Opelousas la. Quot the Towel wont be Whit when i gel through Quot Ilie Allied invasion commander said and Stout grinned and said. Quot Okay sir Quot Marshall queries private at the Perly went Down a country Road a i Here were bloody German Hiver socks Side by aide with Hokd american helmets along the mid Wijt they halted to look Over a site and Gen Marshall spoke is per. Jack Pinho 39, of Jamaica i Quot to Are you making out Quot tie general asked and Pinho said soberly Quot everything just Fine sir Quot after their tour of the Beach arts and a Quck Fook Al die Battlefield of Hugny. And is Veu Vilk where lie hangers fought Widi Oul sleep or food for u hours. A Gene Lull Ami adm King went Bach to the main Beach clambered out of their Neon cars and into a Navy Duck driven by to Grant Sweeney of Stallk Wash. A Navy lieutenant asked Sweeney How he Felt about having America s ranking military minds in in dial and the Tyi answered Quot i ii sort keep their Feci paria Beady Wilh . Flag Stockholm june 12 up a the dog Blasci quoting the vol Kischer co Bochter said today a secret store of 25,000 american flags made or imported by the French underground for the Allied entry into paria Lias been seized by j ans police. Rangers fight k Wake while Quot belter Tufts satisfactory Quot gain Ltd the Cherbourg Peninsula and in the Cecily Forest were announced Al Allied headquarter dispatches from the front said that the yanks also took Caren Lan key Road and rail link at the Bast of the Peninsula. It Felt after an All night barrage followed by fierce hand to hand Fig Riog. . Rangers tangled with lie germans in Waist deep swamp Waters at some Points. Al the Kofl of the Normandy front the germans reported that the allies had smashed nine Miles beyond Caen in a flanking drive which threatened to Cut off that Avion Gold from the West and old of new Allied airborne landings near Troan nine Miles East of the the City. The fish ref communique shortly before Midnight announced Quot slight advances cast of other Roll Tinc dispatches front Gen. Sir Bernard l Montgomery s Headquarters quoted the Allied ground forces commander As estimating the bag of German prisoners at More than 7,0u0 at of sunday. He Alto disclosed that the germans were using some women snipers especially on the american sector. Clear weather enabled the Allied air forces to carry out their biggest operations Over the Batik zone since a Day Wilh Mare thin 1,400 bombers used on one Mission., , thunderbolts were officially disclosed using air Stripe in Normandy along with the Raf fighters. The yanks look tax Crisy Forest which the germans had used for one or their biggest fuel and ammunition dump in Western France in a Swift Advance East of the Vire rive from newly won Lison. A German icon that Toxy already Wert fighting for is. To important rail Junction town nine Miles hmm tie lot. Was denied at Ella of with tie comment that it apparently was issued to pave let Way or a claim Lylial a ton Tai Itell attack had been beaten off. St. To. Whose fall would make the a look German position on the Cherbourg Peninsula virtually untenable was expected to be strongly defended. Cir la important Caren Lan a Small commercial port of 4 000 Inha Bilili near the Mouth of i be Vir River Wai of two Folk importance a it controls the Sluice gales by which tax Nerini flooded the surrounding and it controls the cumm units Ivans of the Peninsula roads and Tail Roedl run lion Here to Cherbourg 30 mile away. The germans claimed secy abandoned Caren Lan to continue a stand in in area Cis exposed to naval Shelleg. Kill Tough a tiler they had reported . Tanks us the town ors the Cherbourg Peninsula itself the american drive Westward across it flooded Merd Cret River Valley carried Halfway across the Promontory. Above there the yanks entered the outskirts of Moni Bourg if Miles from the deep water Paul tie germans reported new Allied Seaborn landings at st. Vaasa East Tuu town on a rail line Norih esst of Monte Bourg and i Miles East of Chi Eiborg and airborne landings in tax tame Vicinity. The germans were feverishly trying to Rush up reserves from at Lar away is Farsi continued on purr t
