Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1944 — Page 9

FILM ACTOR KNIGHTED HOLLYWOOD, June § (U. P) 4 ish actor, today said he was “ex‘tremely gratified” at the news

had been knighted by King George VI in his birthday honors list.

Normandy gradually were faking shape

“So this is D-day,” said the captain, trying to find room to turn around in on his little, overcrowded bridge. “It is,” said the senior officer of

Trickle Across Channel Begins as Price of Liberation.

. i MILLER-WOHL'S BAS e group. : “Odd,” murmured the captain. “We've been talking about it all winter and here it is.” Suddenly we passed a string of infantry landing ships — big ships all, some of them sizable liners and the sea was filled with festoons of | little barges. The infantry had arrived at its, rendezvous point exactly as sched-

's that opened up about hour,

in a very good routine.”

NEW JERSEY GETS SURPRISE BLACKOUT

| TRENTON, N. J, June 9 (U. P.). —A surprise air raid drill last night blacked out the entire state of New Jersey. The second service command said | the yellow warning signal came at| 9:11 p. m, the first blue at 9:24 p. m., the red at 9:36 p. m., the second blue at 9:46 p. m. and the red at 9:59% p.m.

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Difficult to Realize my back,” he said. “The shell 1i landed five feet from me and most! It is difficult to r Beye HOW,

of it went in my pack.” {when the beach is empty and the There was a blond youngster from fleet rides this channel unmolested. Rome, Ga, who took his weapon| It had been a terrible night. The carrier ashore shortly after 7 a. m.|sea was higher, if possible, than “The 88s Waited ., when it caused Sunday's postponey ment~—~choppy, crazy cross-currents “The 88's waited for me,” he said and feathered white caps. An overwith a grin. “Rifle companies went

cast sky. A wind, stiff, wet and cold. ahead off the beach without opposi-| Once we had turned into the Eng-

tion but when I hit shore they jish channel we were in a mael-

pillboxes in what had been clumps | of trees up the gentle slope, Most of the strongpoints seemed | to have been destroyed or evacuated. | A fleld of land mines which some, aviators had seen in preparation!

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nor could there be one more efl-| . vo4 in open cockpits and they he was ahead, he got caught in the | Presently, we were actually advancInfantry launches began to nose had a pack of high explosives on party-pretty prints,

uled and was on its way in. Marked Down—Better Summer ciently carried out. x gave us the thumb-Up signal in : We came up to the French coast| per © Amazingly, they didn't ap- »| There was a curly headed kid|between Le Havre and Cherbourg oo. io be at all seasick. from Brooklyn—a member of a U.|with more than 4000 ships, an as-| It was morning's most heartening PS. navy demolition squad—whose job|sault navy bigger than the com-| gioht. | the way for following troops. He|Roshtevesky, Dewey and Beattie, |. SNe udging the landed at 6:25 a. m. on D-day, 10] We approached an objective al- oe Sons HAY Sow. an ig REDUCED ... NOW allied naval barrage. Shrapnel got|ing in country from which many of him in the legs and shoulder, |us had been glad to escape With our|, op ovo 0 i the tanks com- AT A FRACTION ing in behind them, and save for, met no opposition. ORIGINAL PRICES! As we came in we could see why.| ) For instance, there was a fortified, Group wall of heavy concrete on the coast: | Materials are cham { ’ - N It was well smashed. So were the bray, pique, Seersucker, 02440 plaids, solids! One and two-piece styles! Broken

nation was ever before attempted| yw, yuyeq to Jads standing closewas blowing up obstacles to clear bined fleets of Jason, Caesar, TogO, Gruicers ang destroyers were fir-| ONCE AGAIN minutes ahead of schedule. Because most entirely subdued by air power. Launches Come in “I would have got it worse but I| lives. OF THEIR some sporadic machinegun fire they, rayons — and such sizes, some slightly

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opened up and a piece of shell hit] me in the throat and chin. I felt! like a mule had kicked me.” He lay on the beach for several {hours before evacuation "and watched allied tanks pour ashore despite the 88's.

By LEE HAWKINS Representing Combined American Press

ON A BEACH IN NORMANDY, June 7 (Delayed).—Bad weather probably was the chief cause of relatively heavy American losses in breaking into some three miles of beaches running each way from here. It it probable that given more exact intelligence data on strong points recently installed along this beach, preliminary bombardment by both planes and naval guns could have been made more effective, It is unlikely that, with the weather as it was, the defenders, shorn of all strong points and armed only with machine guns fired from improvised emplacements, could have cut deeply into the landing force. Had it not been for the intelligence we did have, and its application by naval and airforce, firepower

strom with every ship in sight rolling at once and in various. directions, The world seemed filled with white and blue ships. This launch ran well up toward the front with the assault group. Behind us, a dim pattern in the mist, the destroyers were coming out, an endless line of them, Would Wake the Dead Hundreds — thousands — our marine motors were making a racket to wake the dead, or Hitler, but over them sounded the continuous echo from the cloud rack — our bombers were passing over in a sort of ferry service, replastering the luftwaffe, which had been unable to get up in this area for several weeks.

The worst moment came probably in early morning when the fleet began filtering through enemy minefields. Leading ships were right behind the minesweepers ‘and the minesweepers continued straight on to the beach. This may rate as one of the most efficient individual jobs in the invasion because naval losses through chance encounter with mines were

would have multiplied, and the losses, which were costly, might! have been prohibitive, The key to the trouble was the failure to blow lanes through beach obstacles within a few minutes after H-hour so that boats carrying vehicles and men could get into position to fight. 8hocking evidence of death and destruction still dominated the beach today, but the threat of disaster was giving away swiftly before the Americans’ hard-won advance.

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fleet bunched up like a salmon run. In zigzagging around corners against wind and cross currents, it seemed as if each ship were acting individually and were likely to crash into every other ship in the neighborhood. What you didn't realize, and couldn't until the first wave of infantry barges ran up onto the beach, was that the skippers of these odd-looking crates had been training for a couple of years for just this day. Each one knew just what inch of the channel he was to turn into, just what wave he was permitted to spit behind, and at what time and in what direction. Night Was Tough The night was tough but only half as tough as it seemed. By morning everybody was seasick so it didn’t seem to make any difference. In the first streaks of daylight it seemed as if most of the fleet had been lost somewhere, Only a few landing craft were grouped around. But in a few seconds, as the day brightened, more and more ships came out of the haze like a movie fade-in until presently the whole pageant spread out for the first time, All the ships were here, other groups from other embarkation

craft of a dozen varieties, assorted flak ships, transport carriers, a complete fleet of infantry landing ships, motor launches like this, destroyers, cruisers, battleships! All of them were moving in our direction in close columns. It was) literally impossible to see the horizons, 4000 Ships There

There were 4000 ships in this expedition, not counting such craft as had to be carried over on other ships. Ahead of us, in a direction we now could make out to be due south, there was an opening in the mottled

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had been blown up. | The infantry began to form up {on the debris-strewn beaches, just las they had always done in practice, | jand presently were moving up, through the village streets and into the woods on the left. For once in the history of am-| phibious operations this one had) been conducted on time, without confusion, and in the right place.

l- U. GROUP ELECTS INDIANAPOLIS YOUTH

Indiana university's Skull and Crescent honorary sophomore society has named Richard Hart of Hammond as president. Other officers elected are: Douglas White, Indianapolis, vice president; Robert McCurdy, Logansport, secretary, and Louis Brody, Brooklyn, N. Y,, treasurer. Newly elected members from Indiana include: Joseph Bliss and Owen McDavis, both of Indianapolis; Kent Goodman, Peru; James Roderick, Marion; William Thompson, Milan; Darrell Zink and William Thompson, Salem; Tom Connor, Whiting; Tom Duane, Bloomington: Robert ‘Hansen, Huntington; Robert Cochran, Mishawaka; John Mougin, Bremen; Joe Kyle, Gary, and Dean Bowker, South Bend.

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