Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1945 — Page 12

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sion | FIRST: The capture of the| | of world war Il. germ [port of Cherbourg. ised . ei

|" SECOND: The build-up of | 4tn, sth, and Toth divisions of Gen.

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teriel to enable the forces 0] pAMAGE fn the harbor was so

report on the winning

“INSPITE of the lack of & port, the build-up in the beachhead was completed late in July:

Ty cr { tain no roses. break out from the beach- sxiamive sid Sng, #_iepuisy | | gE ft | that te fal usan 4 oy bi ® id peaines [head and strike foward Ger ar wl hush Why Work sell you a oF Groom with many, ing over the beaches. ~ You don’t | y it quickly al a, in the Now the fighting grew flercer, “Other allied forces had, by July 1, sticky in mittin Tes ad sloop, x yo 0 10 After a bitter and costly struggle, | deepened the beachhead by ¢d- Sticky iton. monev (Adv) 27 to the|Yances up to 20 miles in the area SMoo' Cherbourg fell on: June between Caen and St. Lo against) armored divisions, by simp} : ren. 0

increasingly stubborn resistance in the aggressively defended hedgerows of the Cotentin Peninsula.

» #» » GEN, EISENHOWER wrote on July 5: “The going is extremely tough, with three main causes responsible. “The first of these, as always, is the fighting quality of the German soldier, “The second is the nature of the country, Our whole attack has to fight its way out of very narrow bottle necks flanked by marshes and against an enemy who has a double hedgerow and an intervening ditch almost every 50 yards as ready-made strong points. “The third cause is the weather. Our air has been unable to operate af maximum efficiency and on top of this the rain and mud were so bad during my visit that I was re8] | minded of Tunisian wintertime. “It was almost impossible to locate artillery targets although we have plenty of guns available, Even with clear weather it is extraordinarily difficult to point out a target that is an appropriate one for either

sembled in the beachhead area. . The Canadian 1st army under Gen. Crerar and the British 2d army under Gen. Dempsey composed the 21st army group, later designated the northern group of armies, commanded by Field

Marshal Montgomery. ~

» - " THESE ARMIES were still dependent on beachhead supply for their sustenance. Even with unseasonable bad weather which severely damaged and almost destroyed one of the two artificial port installations and halted unloading operations many times, an average of some 30,000 tons of supplies and 30,000 troops were handled every day. These achievements, without precedent in history, were not anticipated by the German defenders. Consequently, their plans for defense of the 3

Lo and Avranches and carried the lines swiftly forward to the Meuse river. F, L ’

confined to crossings of the lower but we have now got the strength |Seine northwest of Elbeuf. * on that wing to proceed definitely] NEXT. about our business.

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