ALLIED FORCES
STRIKE INLAND
FROM COAST
SUPREME ADVANCED COM
MAND POST, AEF.. line 7.—
<AP>—Allied forces have struck
inland from the beachheads,
where they have cleared the ene
my and linked up nearly all of
the beachheads along the coast,
with the Cherbourg invasion front
showing “improvement.”
The allies are making consider
able progress along *he entire
front, despite the inclement wea
ther and the stiffening resistance.
A headquarters officer said
that both sides have dropped eir
borne troops on >he flaming bat
tlefront.
Allied parachutist and glider
troops wree pouring from a 50
mile-long sky-train on the Caen
base, on the Normandy Peninsula
southwest of LeHavre.
Allied headquarters declared
that the airforces in mammoth
support of the invasion thrust,
have flown more than 71,000
sorties the first week in June.
Allied air-borne troops have'
seized key inland positions and
helped throw back the Nazi tan
gled counterblows.
The Germans likewise, rushed
parachut etroops, who for the
past four months wrere being pre
pared for just this purpose, and
who are led by Lt. Gen. Kurt,
who engineered th elandings on
Crete.
RAP’ Mosqffuitoes last night
destroyed five Junkers troop car
riers.
Lt.’ Gen. Omar Bradley is in
charge of the ground forces par
ticipating in the attack, head
quarters disclosed.
German reports said they had
repelled an invasion attack near
Calais, 150 miles northwest of
Cherbourg, but later in the day,
their reports indicated that shore
guns had opened fire on the inva
sion task force sailing in feints
past many points, keeping the
Germans in doubt where the next
landings will be made.
The -endless aerial train of the
U. S. Ninth Air For4e glitiirs
carried a steady stream of men,
equipment and supplies to the
forces already fighting in inland
areas and key points.
Troops, engineers, rations and
equipment are being dropped from
the sky.
The German high command ad
mitted that a superior force *
has established beachheads more <
than 40 miles apart at the mouth
of the Orne river and north of 1
Carentan. ji
A DNB broadcast said the i
American troops w'ere being
steadily reinforced, but were en- ’
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gaged'h battle with Gorman
roops near S'. Mere Eglise, be
1 tween Carentan and Cherbourg,
near the peninsula’s tip.
DNB also admitted that the al
lied bridgehead at the Orne river
was about 21 miles wide and six
miles deep in many places, bu
declared the thrust to seirte the
town of Caen, nine miles inland
was repulsed.
The Nin h Air Force said 12
troop carriers and 12 gliders
failed to return from the rein
forcing operations last night.
Early today Berlin said: “Field
Marshal Rommel was rushing up
reserves of the German Seven*h
and Fifteenth armies, and battles
were rapidly increasing to grand
scale."
American Troops
Restiiig After
Invasion Success
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
OF THE ALLIED ARMIES IN
ENGLAND, June 7. — American
soldiers were leaning on their
rifles along the French coast to
day, taking it easy while waiting
for chow, according to Lt. James
Crawley, of Springfield, 111., as
he flew his transport over the
beachhead Tuesday evening.
He said: “It looks mighty good
over there. The craters looked
less than 100 feet apart, and they
a»e deep. We encountered no
enemy planes and no flak.”
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Germans Says
Fighting ‘Grave’
LONDON, June 7.—A German
broadcast said today, the gravest
of fighting was taking place at
the Caen airbase on the Norman
dy peninsula, 120 miles northwest
of Paris, and added that grand
scale landings had been made be
tween the mouths of the rivers
Seine and Vire.
Xhe report also claimed that a
cruiser and a large troop-cram
med landing vessel were sunk
of Cherbourg.
Landings were also reported on
the channel islands of Jersey and
Guernsey.
MANY VISITORS AT
MONTHLY MEETING OF CLUB
Visitors at the monthly meeting
af the Alaska Yukon Sourdough
Club of San Francisco from here,
were Miss A. Peterson and Wil
liam Gallop of Council, and Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Schollen of Solo
non. The chairman of the recep
ion committee is Mrs. Dan Al
rich.
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New Camp Now
At Rouen, France
LONDON'. June 7.—'AP>—A
camp for aliied prisoners was es
tablished at Rouen, France. in
the invasion area, the Berlin ra
dio said today, adding cryptical-j
ly: “When prisoners were trans-i
ferred, there were some incidents
with the population.”
WHALEYS PARENTS
OF INFANT GIRL
This morning at 10:2°. a. m;, a
little seven pound, nine ounce
“Miss” was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Whaley. Mother and daugh
ter are doing nicely, but the fa
ther and son are practically over-,
come, passing the cigars, and
Brownie wearing the tires off his
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bicycle spreading 'he news. Al
though she had no “dog tag” when
she arr.ved, the proud parents
think she bieongs to the “air
waves.”
Eisenhower Visits
Beachhead Areas
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
A. E. F., June 7.—(AP>—General
Dwight Eisenhower today made
the journey across th eEnglish
Channel to the beachhead areas
and vicinity, on a Royal Navy
warship. Also on the trip was
Admiral Ramsey and several of
the staff officers of the allied su-j
preme command, it was announc- j
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