Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1945 — Page 4

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‘under Lt. Gen. Alexander M. ‘Patch. : These landings on the

ther weakened the fast-de-teriorating posifion of the German army in France. . Preparations for this operation under the general supervision of the supreme allied commander, Mediterranean theater of operations, had been underway, while the campaigns in Italy and northern France were in . The very threat of such a landing had held substantial German

immobilized in the south of France,

preventing their deployment against

our forces in Normandy. w » » A NAVAL force comparable In ‘size to the one which participated

mandy, had been assembled. An air offensive, conducted chiefly by the allied strategic air forces, prepared the way for the invasion by sustained attacks on vital enemy communications and installations in Southern France. The 7th army landed southwest of Cannes in ideal weather, The area had been selected as the most favorable approach to the Rhone valley, . The landing force consisted of elements of Gen. Truscott’s 6th

s & =» A BRITISH-AMERICAN airborne

Argens river west of St, Raphael the night preceding the seaborne assault. . 3 This force séized the pass through which our forces would debouch. By Aug. 28 the beachheads were firmly established and the advance up the Rhone valley was well under way. ’ The operation had been substantially aided by the “efforts of the French underground.

Le I WHILE THE

tinued unabated.

fell back north of the Seine,

in the American landings in Nor-

£| MEANWHILE, on Aug. 15, operation ANVIL was ex-

E' ecuted by the U. S. 7th army|

southern coast of France fur.|

forces of the 1st and 19th armies]

Operation adequately the fast-moving offen-

sive across that was gperating .on' a dangerously thin supply

task force jumped astride the] basis.

Many divisions had a very limited supply on hand. . ” . ON SEPT. 5 the 9th U. 8 army under the command of Lt. Gen.!

main force swept’

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and the advance northward con-

division of the 1st U, 8B. army entered Paris, as the battered remnants of the German army which had defended the Normandy coast

The Germans had suffered at least 400,000 casualties, of which more than 200,000 were prisoners of

: ; | The units which had escaped.deforced to abandon!

ARAL 45 Milas

ANVIL, from France's Mediterranean coast up through - the Rhone river valley was the southern arm of a continental pincers that eventually squeezed the Germans back across thé Rhine, .

William H. Simpson began operations under the 12th army group for

thé reduction of Brest and other

the * retreating German divisjons.

The pocket thus formed yielded over 22,000 prisoners with heavy additional Josses of killed and

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of world war Il.

This is the 17th of 42 installments of material selected from Gen. Marshall's report; on the winning

of additional ports and for the relaying and repair of hundreds of railroads.