Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Solms aha a a All three Ali exactly St Afefa had scheduled the cutting off of the Peninsula is not a but the 13 Days it took were remarkable enough for the usually Tough talking Churchill to exhibit a rare opt All the plans agreed upon in Teheran have not yet been put into but they Are being steadily unrolled and the months of the summer by the victories of this Allied am bring full Success to the cause of castles in the air Are not part of the Churchill bag of tricks though a poker face Long has standing beside his Long record warning sweat and tears and against the historian statesman hint of Early Victory can have been based on facts known Only to the High but on the surface were signs to bolster his Hope phase three of the Norm Andy operation the closing off of the Peninsula had taken less than two weeks from the first Haefs announcements of nor Mandy Progress never word that the first phase the landings had been successfully accomplished had been followed by word of securing and operating on the phase i so certain was the Allied hold on i the hard won ground that George 1 the sixth visited troops on the not without risk to himself but with decisive effect of convincing the world Germany included that the Allied grip was casualties have been far less than in the first ten Days american dead numbered wounded robot planes Germany great secret Wea Pon unleashed too late thanks to skilled pre invasion proved terrorizing on the militarily pilotless planes hurtled Over South Ern but did none of the damage German propagandists told Home frontiers in their Despe rate efforts to boost failing to that they put out the Story that London is devastated some hint of the Clammy confusion behind enemy the robot planes turned out to be neither secret nor they Are not con trolled by radio As the evidently planted Neutral sources they Are operated by an Automa tic Pilot before the Overall length is 25 feet with a fuselage of 21 feet 10 inches and a medium Width of 2 feet Range is about 150 Miles and the Speed Between 300 and 350 explosive is carried in the front of the fuselage and the vagueness of direction makes them yank troops used this antitank ditch As a temporary first Aid station in the Normandy beachhead own misses of Allied opposition to them has been their setoff Points in the Calais area had been known and acted upon by american and British bomber groups to such an extent that their use was postponed and now set off As a strictly terror vehicle at on Quarter Tackack Over Southern Britain have formed a protective screen against the fighters is robots fighter planes have at tacked them in ups Robert Richards described one such Duel streaking though overcast sky at 350 Miles per one of the weapons suddenly appeared at hurtling in an unswerving it was easily discernible despite its for the rocket like exhaust on the left Tail was streaming behind four typhoons were in Spla Shes broke out on the secret Pla nes fuselage As the typhoons bullets the pilotless Craft suddenly went into a spiral dive and the typhoon banked to avoid the nazi Craft plunged to Earth and crushed into a a i billow of Black smoke then curled i above the in Normandy the american ninth division slugged it out at Sau Veur be 15 Miles below beat Back a determined the enemy first major bid to break the trap which bottled off an estimated to of his troops at sheltered peacetime berth of the greatest transatlantic travelling with the lbs correspondent Larry described the Peninsula As like the wooded Hill Region of Pennsylvania with Dusty unlike the Checkerboard pattern of land scape the yanks had crossed on the Jersey Garrison troops unmentioned in official sheaf the Ger Man held Isle of Jersey loomed in sparkling Blue Waters below the fighting ninth at prisoners captured near there appeared clean and Thev had not been fighting Long on the West had Only recently landed in barges from the Channel where they had been garrisoned the past two striking Inland with the British at the Cerise where Montgomery at first achieved the deepest ups correspondent Richard Mcmillan Drew this picture i found a Rose on the Battle Field in France and beyond the Rose a Man and beyond that Man a All three were dead and crushed by the mighty vortex or mechanized warfare which is grinding across this Beautiful coun crushing Rose blooded poppies and Rich Bego Nias under the treads of splintering the Trees with High explosives and blasting and obliterating the towns and 1a tank had gone across this Cost him so heavily at Alamein and Rommel is Cinnlt with estimated at 60 divisions available for Westert exclusive of Italy and grenades for Pillbox Henry Gorrell told of american some of them crossing the Douve River to take Sauveur the men made a great attack in the face of German fire when our ammunition was Al most after Days of cons Tant some had Al most no food three on the Mainland the 1st and 2nd american divisions threw Back Small counterattacks evidently aimed at probing for the germans got their a Norma doughboy took Qunneville after a three Day warships and artillery could not smash All the German the infantrymen said that the shells narc Mically bounded off one big Strong a Concrete Pillbox with heavy steel doors which the Ger mans opened to fire a huge mortar Emp laced the doughboy went they crawled on their bellies in the of German fire until they got close enough to throw hand grenades through the doorway when the germans opened similar action by British Marine commandos took last remaining German Strong Point on petals Lay crushed and red in the i saw a Young Tommy lying a Little beyond with a smile on his lips As if he entered Valhalla Lightheart edly in the midst of Bat Lay on the outskirts of a ruined nearby was a burned out tank with the tattered remnants of another Man beside the desert rats months famed desert rats were men of the British seventh armoured with the red rat of the Western desert on their shoulder the insignia Rommel had so contemptuously Given them and with which they had chased him so doggedly Rommel himself is opposing but no longer with the supreme authority he had in the desert the traditional Ger Man evidently has won out in its demand that an Militarist give orders to the nazi Phile Goebbels publicity had made a colourful Field Marshall von Rundstedt is his Boss and observers note he seems to have tempered Rommel thirst the in itself longer of military significance tout of Poten tial prestige value to the finally a grenade attack and a Shell on the forts powder Maga Zine coincided and attackers Dis covered underground quarters for 150 with no shortage of the Best Champagne and Oil shells one More German weapon was reported by ups Henry Gorrell for the first time since Day the germans have resorted to mor tar shells that on exploding Shower the Allied positions with flaming this Type of chemical War fare was used in the Mon Teburg the allies had a another Wea first against enemy shipping in a strafing a 130car yank fliers dropped their auxiliary Gas tanks on the train and then strafed the Gas soaked cars with White and Blue explosions swept into the air Over a thousand feet and every car was set the weeks weather was not rain overcast skies hampered flying conditions and increasingly High winds made unloading along the beaches Dange these airborne infantry troops got into action As soon As raising a cloth overhead with this yank assault trooper is glider landed in Field on a Normandy their Job was to trying to attract the German hidden a Fenton reinforce Forward positions of the first wave of the june 6 landings so his buddy can pick them off when they reveal positions the first German prisoners captured in the initial assault wait questioning at a pow Camp in the boy with the stick and bag claimed to be was