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NORMANDY BEACHHEAD (By Wireless) —Due to a last-minute alteration in the arrangements, I didn’t arrive on the beachhead until the morning after D-day, after our first wave of assault troops had hit the shore. By the time we got here the beaches had been taken and the fighting had moved a couple of miles inland. All that remained on the Beach was some sniping and artillery fire, and the occasional startling blast of a mine geysering
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shattered jeeps and sad litle personal belongings were the strewn all over these bitter sands. That plus the bodies of soldiers lying in rows covered: get all the
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with blankets, the toes of their shoes sticking up in a line as though on drill. And other bodies, uncollected, still sprawling grotesquely in the sand or half hidden by the high grass beyond
beach. That plus an intense, grim determination of
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vital supplies and the reinforcements moving
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more rapidly over it from the stacked-up ships standing in droves out to sea. Now that it is over it seems to me a pure miracle that we ever took the beach at all. For some of our units it was easy, but in this special sector where I am now our troops faced such odds that our getting ashore was like my whipping Joe Louis down to a pulp. In this article 1 want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you (Continued on Page 4—Column 5)
RICANS CAPTURE CARENTAN, ES TOWARD ST. 10
On the War Fronts
(June 12, 1944)
INVASION — Germans announce abandonment of Carentan while American flanking columns to the north and south sweep within less than 12 miles from Cherbourg.
ITALY—Fifth army races 51 to 70 miles above Rome as headquarters spokesman announces German 14th army “ceased to exist.”
PACIFIC—Two-way aerial offensive on enemy bases protecting Philippines appears under way following second attack on Marianas and first land-based plane attack on Palaw island.
RUSSIA—Russian tanks, guns and men pour through Mannerheim line above Leningrad in pursuit of Finnish forces.
CHINA—Two powerful Jap armies closing in on Changsha; city may already have fallen.
Soviet Aim to Knock Nazi Ally Out of War in
Summer Drive.
By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 12—Karelian front dispatches said today that miles-long columns of Russian tanks, guns and troops were pouring through the broken Mannerheim line above Leningrad in hot pursuit of Pinnish forces retreating so fast they were’ unable to blow
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To This Country.
—President Roosevelt reported to congress today that the Nazis—despite the fact that they face certain military defeat—"are determined to complete their program of mass extermination” of minorities. In a report on steps taken by the government to provide refuge victims of Nazi cruelty who have fled Europe, Mr. Roosevelt said this nation was appalled “by the systematic persecution of helpless minority groups by the Nazis.” : “As the hour of the final defeat of the Hitlerite forces draws closer, The initial impact of Gen. Leonid [the theory of their insane desire A. Govorov's assault crashedito wipe out the Jewish race in through the Mannerheim line on a|Europe continues undiminished,” mile front and in 36 hours the|the President said. advanced 15 miles Others Also Suffer
Viipuri, first big| «ris is but one example: Many Sev fet push which! copristian groups also are being months on the, rdered. Knowing that they have
Pinnis} lost the war, the Nazis are detercommunique reported mined to complete their program
but appears to depend only on the
: intense fighting all day and nighti,s mass extermination.”
The President reported on arrangements made to bring immediately to this country approximately 1000 refugees — predominantly women and children who fled from central Europe into southern Italy. They will be placed in a vacated army camp at Ft. Ontario near Oswego, N. Y. and will be returned to their homes at {the end of the war. The President explained that “it was essential to take action without delay” in order to save as many
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T. B. Hospital Patients Complained, Witness Says.
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of the ul before Special Judge Harvey B. Hartsock that a few i after the hospital started muyg| SENATE 0. K.’S G. I. BILL milk from the Golden Guernsey firm| WASHINGTON, June 12 (U. P). in January, 1043, patients began to|—The senate by voice vote today : about its quality. ~ approved a conference report on She said patients complained that|the “G. I. Bill of Rights” setting up milk was “thinner, bluish in|fnancial benefits for veterans of
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ARMY IN TTALY
Triumphant Forces Drive 51 to 70 Miles Above Eternal City.
By ROBERT V. VERMILLION United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 12.—The triumphant allied 5th army raced almost unopposed over the coastal and mountain highways 51 to 70 miles above Rome today and a headquarters spokesman announced that the German 14th army, which once numbered 150,000 veteran troops, “has ceased to exist” as a fighting force. All semblance of organized resistance vanished in the path of the 5th army columns and official reports said the Nazi retreat had be-
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Italy, June 12 (U. P.).~—British, American and Partisan forces raided the Dalmatian island of Brac the night of June 1 and withdrew four days later with a number of prisoners after overcoming enemy resistance and “attaining objectives.”
come a chaotic rout. Isolated bands of Germans were fleeing on foot and in horse-drawn farm carts, battling each other to the death for trucks and cars in a panicky race to escape. :
British Gaining Also
Simultaneously, British 8th army columns drove battered German 10th army in headlong retreat on a broad front extending from the east bank of the Tiber 30 miles above Rome to the mouth of the Pescara river, on the Adriatic coast. With their right flank exposed by the collapse of Nazi Gen. Eberhard von Mackensen’s 14th army, the 10th iarmy appeared to be pulling out at top speed to escape encirclement in the central and eastern
American - tanks and infantry forces on the coastal flank of the advancing 5th army made the deepest penertation into the enemy rear. Official’ reports covering the action through yesterday afternoon ‘said they were approaching the port of Orbetello, 70 airline miles northwest of Rome and about 90 miles above the capital by road. At the same time, another allied force, apparently landed from the sea at Porto San Stefano, five miles west by north of Orbetello, was reported driving down on that city over the four-mile causeway linking San Stefano with the mainland.
PLANES BLACKEN SKY OVER INVASION ARMY
Foe Reports Luftwaffe in Battle at Last.
LONDON, June 12 (U. P.).—Thousands of allied warplanes, spear headed by a 1750-plane American force, ripped across the Nor-
Fall of Nazi Fort Follows Bitter All-Night Battle; Garrison Makes Its Escape.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, June 12 (U. P.).—American shock troops captured Carentan, anchor base of the German defenses across the neck of the Cherbourg peninsula, at 8:30 a. m. today after battling all night through its streets in violent hand-to-hand fighting. Henry T. Gorrell, United Press correspondent, with the Americans in Normandy, reported the fall of Carentan in a dispatch written on high ground overlooking the town at 9a m. Gorrell reported that the German survivors at Carentan fled southward through a tiny and fast closing gap as the American assault forces were about to forge an iron trap around them while battering through the town itself.
‘Better Than Satisfactory’
The situation in Normany was described officially as “a little better than satisfactory” as the allied armies rounded
out the first week of the invasion campaign with steady advances. A spokesman at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s supreme headquarters revealed that American troops had by-passed Montebourg, 14 miles southeast of Cherbourg, and were swinging up the peninsula toward that great port which field dispatches had reported less than 12 miles ahead of them. Impressive gains by Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's army on both sides of the Carentan “hinge” of the German defenses rimming the allied beachhead posed a mounting threat to) =~ is logos . Nazis in the upper part of the| The Germans were understood to peninsula with being cut off {be packing troops and armor into
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WAR ANALYSIS— Losses Have Not Been ‘Light’ And Hardest Task Lies Ahead
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Some of the earlier reports were Scripps-Howard Staff Writer too optimistic, or at least were inWASHINGTON, June 12.—The| accurately interpreted by a few. Our first week of the invasion is best|]osses in men have not been “light” summed-up in Ernie Pyle’s comment| —they have been considerable, on the spot: “It seems to me a though not as heavy as the allied Pre & miracle we ever took the beach | command feared would be necessary. at all” beac) 18.45 Just as much a tairatle, OF | nn” est Wall, ow beached; Was course, that the beachheads were| .,,g it was not a solid line, It was joined, extended and held against) recisely what the allied command stiff enemy counter-attacks, when expected to find it, an exceedingly bad weather often blocked our Sea|ciever combination of underwater and air supply lines. But it Was a parriers and murderous shore demiracle for which the superb fight- ences — though this coast was ing ability of our forces and their 5 ——— great heroism were responsible. | (Continued on Page 3—Column 4) = 2 »