Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Malm Lii St i lib Nej or t Low  and die Rutt Eilif Liber still lined Allied if Story Britai Froin to made a confident pre Tell you relieve that the old adage wars is you will  of with in Normandy or rican assault troops lost their a mile and a near Wierville during the Cherbourg Peninsula it is an army major in charge of burying Deal estimate that some 7w bodies w6re recovered on the Sandy beaches while probably an equal number were washed away by the succeeding thigh the people ought to see he grimly indicating rows of bodies stretch ing several Hundred 4they should see what it Cost to take this one Little Beach it might make them for get the hardships of Gas ration v Over 60 cur Rispon Denis Are now ashore with me liberating Here Are a few of due Ings Tivey be reported from the nine Square area of berated France in the first the retreating germans Naa no tone to Lay their usual waste to the Rich carpets being a died irom under but me past few Days have been tune tombs Are now going oif in the adding to tile chaos of the already ghastly spectacle of masonry Tuu Daug about the streets seamed qua her i attn Uiki Allied farm pro Fuce Nas de ii Leaea and no uses diva praised observers agree that Many Huu Urenos of the troops which hit of Moru Iundy ten Days ago tuday owe their lives to the aupied air tie Wavy arid i find and air Doisie of s thenry Burren reports that if the German Torti canons and Coa Suil de deuces Haa not been de Iiley Wouita have Joeen casame of re Pelling any inva Biou Force win  80 confident was Rommel of the Amity of Lua artillery rockets to kill or Maun our soldiers by Uiola aus Limey May Iii Yeti Guowu on tue m some v places Only Nuy Yards that behind the imposing array of firepower manner by veterans of half a do zen he installed a second army of conscript among them flies and a Flor units Active that is where the German Field Marshall made his for by the time our heavy and medium fighter bombers dive bombers and guns of warships had lifted their pulverizing Barra a Good two thirds of the Ger Man Concrete and steel defense positions were in ruins besides those airborne sheaf also has identified the 4th and 29th infantry Divi Sions As fighting in of renters re of Tell throughout this entire area of where paratroops glider troops Are the leading forces pushing into Continental m m of Faiers ill w to the my disa Dvan the troops fought Well and took their toll on the nights Many were kitted while descending Weir but to fact hit the ground Matey live become a terror prisoner turnabout Julia Mefi group glider told How his had suffered casualties Taketo prisoner by a German most of the enemy proved be a White czechs whom the germans had pressed into the i told them Only Reagan we had dropped there was because we had heard the germans were raising heir in the Cherbourg area and we wanted to get they then told me that the Ger mans warned them that the would Slit their throats and they were scared to death uni ii i assured them they would be Iriven Good about then u s began shelling the area and As the shells got closer our guards became More and More by the time the shells got really the enemy troops came to us and began to throw Down their a German Cap Tain came Over and handed me his in broken English he said Here s my you please me your prisoner the unit surrendered and Adams made his Way Back to England Tell his strange Story and to Fly y Allied hearts pay visits visitors to the front generals Marshall and Arnold toured the area visited Bradley at his tuesday night Eisenhower summed up the first seven Days of the Campaign they have exceeded my brightest Hopes Churchill set foot on French soit for the first time since four years ago to keep the French government fighting under marshal he lunched with Montgomery at Lff Jent under the of Norman Gaul Les appearance in land strengthened the respect shown him by the it now seems apparent that de Gaulle is immensely popular inside american n equipment Are shown through the surf to the Bridgehead Chi the Normandy i a thigh the a beachhead in Northern France u and a on the beachhead indicate a successful Landing by initial i he smoke in the background b from naval gunfire supporting the own i his that work of his to Ruilt i i underground forces will win More lenient attitude from the French set to work of i Anbu roes not visitors but workers were the 116 army who set up temporary operations on the Many of these women had had frontline experience in North and they didst take ume to remove their wet before setting to work caring for the general hospitals were quickly set up ten Miles behind the keeping in radio com Lance within an hour some casualties have been on their Way Back to from her Post As up reporter at an invasion Dudley Ann Harmon described seeing the dead and wounded being brought ashore from one ship while tanks were being loaded for the return when the huge lists let Down their one sees rows of wounded inside with officers in they do not shout to the waiting Nero they Sim ply wave their arms and the be taking of bloody Normandy beachhead was pure Ernie Pyle France own details of How the ached expeditionary Force battled grimly Aad courageous Inch by across Normandy s bloody beaches in the face of Strong prepared German positions to assure the Success of the initial landings were disclosed in Dis patches by Ernie pie and Don promo nth american War correspondents who accompanied the assault now that it is All Pyle it seems a pure Miracle that we eve took the Beach at Whitehead disclosed that in the sector attacked by the assault wave he accompanied Allied infantrymen hit a solid Core of enemy resistance from to boats on to the Day before he the Haj into the sector for Maneu this meant that on the pry the one inv had strength almost equal to the american in went through mined underwater Obsta cles of Huere Iron tripods looking like oversized jacks such As children play and boat Nightmare of death those first hours were a Nightmare of bursting shells of wounded of pleading looks in eyes of men of bodies washing of explosions a huh sprayed us with dirt and sum our eyes with cordite there As n0 the men even occasionally and laugh in a description of the Strona German defense installations Cor respondent Pyle the advantages were All on me Side of the the disa Dvan Taes Al my them difficult targets for naval gun fire and at the same time enabling the germans to shoot parallel with the Beach and cover every foot of it for Miles with artillery throughout the length of the Beach and running Zigzag for a Siiple of Hundred Yards Back from the Shore line was an immense shaped ditch 15 feet no thing could Cross not even men i silently Load act no 9f the ambulances As miss Harmon also reported that German women Are Manning nazi coastal that prison cages have been prepared for them where they will receive the same treatment As the Hamilcar at least two new weapons were unveiled by one is the High Speed fighter of the the a single with a supercharged engine which can achieve great Speed at High second is the a giant British glider capable of carrying a fast Light tank or other heavy equipment and so Maneu Verhale it can be landed on a Small released several Miles it can be put Down with almost mathematical certainty by Day or swooping Down silently to its target a motor can he heard suddenly starting up it is the motor of the fast gun carry ing started by its Crew while the Hamilcar still is air ready to go into action As soon As it touches flooding for months one of the first to be landed uni even men i be Lii Nueku afoot until it had been partially i a gun Post that had been in other places at the far Caus my heavy casualties among i 3 ends of the Beach where the ground was More the enemy had Pat Concrete Walls which and to be blasted by naval gun fire or by Handset explosives after the Asp troops got our Only exits from the Beach were several valleys each about a 130 cards the germans made most of i i c Nenni Iii Iti Aue most o a 100foot a couple of these funnel like traps 1terall their Bottom sides with hum red Yards Back from the Beach had great Coli cute gun pm Huriod ones attached to i Hult r it into the Khilji ditches and with machine they opened at the sides from the that is instead of in the thus Mak was pc w j our ground forces inside of two minutes after touching a main German defense has been Sluice Gates at High tide to let the sea in and close them at depth varied from a few inches to several but even where it is the ground below is extremely soft and now that the americans hold Isi Jiny it is expected they will be Able to control the Gates and Drain off the alled Iniel gence officers had the heartbreaking Job of watching the spreading foods through months of Aerial