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Along the base of the Normandy peninsula the fighting grew in violence...
...Cherbourg maneuver might be repeated, with Allied forces striking away from German strength to cut off the Brittany peninsula, and seize the ports of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire...
...battle for Cherbourg opened on a clear, cool, summery day. U.S. troops had chased the beaten Nazi divisions up the peninsula, driven wedges to the sea on both sides of the seaport. There was no escape except by sea-and the Allies controlled...
...Germans in Italy gave up all pretense of holding a continuous front. Along the last few roads open to the north they scuttled back in the worst rout of a German army on a western front since Tunisia. Allied forces raced up the peninsula after them, making up to 25 miles a day in near-bloodless pursuit. Town after town in Umbria, ancient land of the little-known Etruscans, fell virtually unharmed...
...Germans who occupied this peninsula were not ruthless; they were extremely well behaved. The townspeople say that the Germans ate and drank too noisily, but their treatment of the French was a little more than correct. Along the coast they fraternized with the local people with some success and at least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young...