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...always be tough until the Allies can force a genuine breakthrough into the open country between Caen and Paris. The battleground was so restricted that German reconnaissance had ample warning of the push-but the battleground will always be restricted while the Allies remain bottled up on the Normandy peninsula. The weather was vile; dust-dry one day, bucketing rain the next two or three-but even the most loyal correspondents were weary of apologizing for the fighting weather...
...were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...
...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...
...forces pulled back into the suburbs of the town, across the Orne River. The main offensive push was staged by U.S. troops at the west side of the front. They drove steadily along the roads to the south, where they must break out into the base of the Normandy peninsula. At week's end patrols entered one key town, Lessay, near the west coast. But inland strong points were still held by the Germans. One day's U.S. advance toward Saint-Lô covered only 400 painful yards...
...Allied Commander went beyond enemy positions by land and air. The first time his jeep skirted an isolated pocket of German resistance on the western side of the Cherbourg peninsula. Later he visited a Ninth Air Force field and jumped at the chance to go across the line, riding pickaback in a specially converted PSI Mustang, with dashing Major General "Pete" Quesada as pilot...