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...Saturday, the first patrols passed Hill 89 (291 feet) on their way to the west-coast road between Barneville and Portbail. The peninsula was crossed...
Last week World War II flared up in battle, destruction and death on every major front around the world. In the Western World, men's hearts and minds were pinned fastest to the blood-soaked Normandy peninsula, where the original beachheads of the Allied invasion were being widened and deepened in savage combat. From within Occupied France came fragmentary reports of patriots rising to fight their German oppressors...
...clear, simple, masterly: 1) to seize beachheads on a sector of coast well within efficient fighter- plane range and economical shipping range of southern England; 2) to join and deep en them, thereby making a solid bridge head; 3) to drive southwest across the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, severing it from the rest of Nazi-held France; 4) to swing north and take (from the rear) the great port of Cherbourg. In the first week, everything depended on the Allies' ability to land enough sup plies on the obstacle-strewn beaches to sustain their forces until Cherbourg could...
...plus-six, despite the intervening hell of fire, high winds and high water, the Allies sped up their advance. U.S. troops took Carentan, drove farther south-west toward sealing off the peninsula. Said Montgomery: "American troops did absolutely magnificently," recovering from a situation in which they had been "hanging on by their eyelids. ... I am very pleased with the progress so far. Our soldiers . . . are in tremendous form . . . full of beans. And they have already got the measure of the enemy...
...insurance, and their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads to airfields where later paratroopers would land. Word trickled back to their base last week that at least some of them were still alive-and therefore, of course, still fighting...