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From Right to Left. The Japanese radio explained the invasion: "In France, the Allied armies are retreating haphazardly inland...
...least 1,000 guns were battering the elaborate French-built defenses of Cherbourg. Infantrymen with grenades, bazookas and dynamite charges cleaned out the inland strongholds, Fort du Roule and Octeville. From the sea a naval task force, including battleships and cruisers, stood in to batter and silence the big harbor installations, Fort des Flamands and Pelee Island...
Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
...will have to be returned before the voting. In a total 2,670 communes, 2,300 quisling mayors have been put in power. They will have to be ousted, replaced by trustworthies before normal order is regained. From the 45-mile sea-coast 180,000 people have been shoved inland. They must be returned. Wrecked residential and industrial areas must be rebuilt. Belgian railways, looted by Germany, must be rehabilitated...
...made duck carried Charles de Gaulle from ship to beach. A British-driven jeep bore him inland. The first Frenchmen the General spied were two gendarmes standing on a roadside. The jeep braked sharply. The gendarmes, seeing a French general, came over...