Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              First radio photo of beachhead Landing american Vanault Urfer full pack at they moved into a Normandy beachhead at the fart of tuesday in the background can to seen the of Tome of the thousands of binding Craft approaching the radio photo by America kneels in prayer As invasion is announced new the country awoke o a Day of harder work in plants and prayers in Chur on hearing of the with the Public expressing Relief that waiting the invasion is Over and sober knowledge that now begins the hardest Job of the the Liberty Bell in the Phila Delphia shrine of Independence led the chorus of Church and car Lions in the and new Orleans French Quarter hoisted the Tricolour alongside the Cross of the news of the invasion was received by americans in a solemn but confident the general was excess by the new York times which said the next few hours and Days will be critical in our in human we must wait in patience for the news that May be slow in we must toe prepared for losses and reverses at some the shape of the Battle May be slow in today we must Only newspaper pros lords prayer the daily in lieu of an printed the lords prayer under the caption of invasion o afternoon newspaper pm said for the is the beginning of the belgian and hoi1 and or will become an Allied this is a Day or rejoicing and Eleanor Roosevelt Broad cast a special message to urging Pray to prepare to fulfil our obligations to those fighting May have courage to do our part for the Sake of future May god Consolation to those who suffer both at Home and churches of All denominations held special new York mayor Aguada called a Peoples meeting this after noon in front of the eternal Lam which is the memorial to the Vic Tims of the first world Many thousand workers coins to work in plants and shipyards in the morning stopped in route and entered churches for Brief residents of Brooklyn hebrew Home foe the aged arose before dressed prayer and went to Street Corners to sound the shofars to Call the jews to the synagogues in the neighbourhood for worship in connection with like like son West Point the sons of tw0 War chiefs began their careers this John son of put away his dress uniforms to assume is duties As a second lieutenant in the in Fantry following his graduation from West Point on on the next Ernest son of the com Inch of the graduated from his own father administering the communique 5 june 8 Bayeux has Lauulu to our have also crossed the Hayea Caen Road at several Progress continues despite de enemy fierce armied and infantry fighting has taken Contact has been established Between our seaborne and air borne the steady build up of our forces has during the boats made unsuccessful attempts to interfere with the continual arrival of War support fire from War ships continued throughout yes airfields attacked our air forces have Given in valuable support to ground troops on All sectors of the advantage was taken of favourable Over Northern France yesterday afternoon and evening to attack enemy rail and Road cdncentration3 of men and material and to bomb airfields and other targets up to one Hundred Miles in and Vance of our More than sorties were flown in tactical support of our land and naval out for the second time yes heavy bombers with a fighter escort in the late after noon attacked airfields North West of Lorient and Railroad Bridges and focal Point in the area from the Bay of Biscay to the continued to Page 8 june 8 it was stated Here tonight that the first of foothold and defeat of local German reserves in been successfully phase of foothold and engaging German tactical reserves brought in from outside immediate locality of our now in phase three will be the engaging of German strategic re serves which must be Defeated before the can Hope for a substantial sheaf revealed tonight that British and american tanks specially waterproofed waded More than six feet of 280 firms throughout did a Rush Job of proofing tanks without know what they were the germans had Between 1500 and single and engine fighters in the West including with comparatively few in the area of the battlefields when the invasion indications from actual fighting show that reinforcements have arrived in sufficient numbers to sup port a Large number of the germans May attach so much importance tzo repelling these landings that they denude the Homeland of lighters for push on past Bayeux june8 Allied troops arc still pushing ahead in frand9 following the capture of bigger forces on both sides have now apparently been brought into and fighting Between Armor and infantry on both sides is Allied air forces Are sea Slang into the German Forward Avea a much on the lines of a battering ram to blast a Way for american and who Are steadily reinforced and strengthened As second wave of supplies crossed landings had Surprise element although the germans were first to announce the my Avion has they appear to have been late in discovering sheaf supreme Headquarters awned expeditionary an hour Ami a half after the German news Agen cys report at Cairo june that Havre is being Shel led and Parach gusts have landed at the Mouth of the at Cairo time in the states came this terse announcement from Eisen Howers Ernest de Puy under the command of Eisenhower Allied naval supported by Strong air forces be Gan Allied armies this morning on the Northern coast of first sign the germans had of the mightiest Armada in history evidently came at when a Lone German recce with the help of discovered the approaching at american troops became the first fighting ground forces to land on French put several hours earlier combined British and american paratroopers shared the Honor of being the first soldiers of liberation to land on French soil on behind the lines these airborne Tooris and taken off from their British bases Shn Rolv after by Landing behind the ones and blocking the roads leading to the their Job was to slow Down German attempts of Rush reinforcements to meet the by the full of tight of the continued on Page 2 Draff Dodge Racket broken up by Fri Baltimore fourteen men and one won Icin were seized by Fiji agents last week and accused of either helping army inductees feign mental ailments to of to n deferments or evading the John in charge of the Baltimore Fri said that amounts High As 500 were being paid by draft dodgers for help in obtaining psycho neurotic and other types of he Idun tried the accused induction St ton employees is co Chester Leon Shapiro and Morris eight of the persons arrested were charged with invading the the Battle is still in a fluid there is no Point in being Over of but the capture of Bayeux May open the Advance from that it was Learned at supreme Allied Headquarters air activity has been on a big particularly Strong Over the assault but now that von Rundstedt has at last decided to throw in his the first round has obviously gone to sir Trafford the Allied air first yank from Syracuse by Robert Reuters behind us human lines flown to London by Carrier i june 0 paratroopers screaming their Battle cries have been spouting from the Long Bridge of planes Lor an hitting the ground around me in fighting units and immediately beginning their deadly probably the first Allied Soldier to land in the invasion was Frank of who led the Advance airborne unit which drove into Europe on this vital major George son of Oscar dropped from the first planes to fulfil his this dramatic dispatch reached London thursday Carrier Pigeon to which inaugurated just such a Ines Asra service one Hundred years