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THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE. THURSDAY, JUNE 15. 1911 PAGE 2 fc'. 1 2 sf i 4 i v. -a Vv- V-" '-Xj I'll II KM rz -c OUR DKAI) IN NORMANDY With tommy Kims luld ready, American paratroopers arc shown in this photo advancing cati- Till: INVASION FRONT: LCT IN TROUDLIC Nor- I hazardous.

This Coast Guard tank-lamlintf craft foundered off mundy's heaclics arc strongly held, the Channel crossing is slill the French coast. Crewmen are showji awaiting rescue. U. S. Planes Hit 12 French Areas Allies Past Carentan Gain On 9-Mile Front tiously through a French field and passing members tii ir out-lit who were killed in fighting by well-hidden Nazi snipers.

Landing Yanks Met Foe On Maneuvers By Philip S. Heisler Evening Sun Staff Correspondent 'Chutists 'Charged Like Wild Animals', Nazis Say Air Marshal Visits France Supreme Headquarters, Allied Continued From Page 1 By Robert Reuben Expeditionary Force, June 15 (IP) Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 15 (iP) Between 1,000 and 2,000 American ahead because of the fire, and we new Allied attention to Le Havre Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, commander of the RAF Tactical Air Fortresses and Liberators and es lying just east of the beachhead, with surmises that it portended a Force, flew to France today to "re view the progress being made to 60Uth of the Biards Forest, the Germans said, and achieved an initial penetration which was declared to have been stopped. The second jab was through the area crisscrossed by canals linking the Vire and Taute rivers, DNB land move in that direction. corting fighters swept over France this morning, bombing airplane plants, airfields and railroad facili With the German counterattacks ward extending air operations from the area under Allied control." it couldn't go to either side because of the flooded areas," said Sergt. Roy Hendricks, of Port Hill, Idaho.

"We wouldn't go back, so that's when the colonel organized the bayonet attack." It was about 5 A. M. Dawn was about to break. Colonel Cole passed the word back through the mounting in fury, there were in ties in a dozen places. was announced.

He is visiting Tac Berlin radio reported an attack dications that Nazi Field Marshal von Rundstedt had decided to draw said. on the great industrial city of Hanover in Germany, while lighter American artillery was shelling off some of his reserves in other tical Air Force units in France. Nazis Term Allied the road from Montebourg to Val parts of France to meet the Allied Allied planes from bases in Nor ditches lining the road: ognes to the northwest, and the "Fix bayonets. Load your guns. Advanced Airborne Base, Somewhere in France, June 13 (Reuter Delayed) Led by a fiercely fighting lieutenant colonel, a battalion of American paratroopers the terrior of German troops in this area of the Cherbourg peninsula made a wild bayonet charge into German machine-gun, rifle and mortar fire to help secure the capture of Carentan.

The lQlst Paratroop Battalion fought the seemingly impregnable German hillside fortifications for 30 hours. When the fighting was most intense they organized their bayonet and rifle attack from ditches and swamps and then raged, about 200 strong, up the hill into the German fortifications, behind their shouting, storming Lieut. Col. Robert Cole, of San Antonio, Texas. Lying In Muddy Ditches The battalion was lying in muddy thrusts.

Biggest Nazi Troop Moves Yet doughboys controlled the road from mandy and Britain continued their widespread support campaign in a smashing follow-up to an We are going to charge." "Charged Like Animals" Quineville, on the coast, to Monte Allied flyers reported more move Blows Powerful bourfi but the town itself changed His troops lumped across or ment on the roads behind the Ger bomber operation overnight. As a part of the latter opera hands from hour to hour. man lines last night than at any (Stoneman, the Chicago Daily Washington, June 15 A German division had just startec'. field maneuvers on one sector of the invasion coast when Allied forces landed. Secretary of War Henry L.

Stimson said today his press conference. The fighting that ensued on that sector of the invasion beachhead was the bitterest yet reported and "only sheer courage of our soldiers won the day," Stimson declared. The Secretary did not identify the army unit that participated in that battle, nor designate the sector. 29th In Tough Spot However, dispatches from the field had previously stated that the 29th Division, composed largely of Maryland and Virginia men, had struck the toughest opposition in the invasion operations. The German division manned the machine-gun emplacements and set up heavy cross-fire against the oncoming Americans, Stimson reported.

The Yanks troops were forced to London, June 15 (JP) Today's time since D-day. waded through canals chest deep with water, and fought their way into the German emplacements which surrounded a small, wooded Hews correspondent, said he spent German communique said that the Appearance of the Second Panzer tion, several hundred Lancasters blasted E-boat pens at Le Havre with six-ton "factory busters" in Wednesday afternoon in Carentan, fighting in Normandy was increas farmhouse. 'It is a tame place, he wrote, Division the best armored unit in the German army indicated that the Germans were making a su "after a week of bombardment and daylight. Two Attacks On Port It was a fanatical attack that will be long remembered, particularly ing in violence and that the Allies were making powerful eflorts to enlarge their bridgehead in all ttreet preme effort to seal off the Allied Twenty-eight hundred tons of by the Germans. "They charged like wild ani Allied troops driving south along directions.

graphs and have not yet been released. "The West Wall was no myth or pushover," Stimson added. "At some spots the landings were easy because of tactical surprise. But at other places there were off-shore mines, pillboxes and land mines that made the establishment of beachheads extremely hazardous." "Now Have A Firm Foothold" The Secretary pointed out that after nine days of fighting in France the situation can be more accurately judged than a few days ago. The Allied forces now hold an area about 60 miles in length and varying from 6 to 18 miles in depth.

"By now we have established a firm foothold." he said. "We believe we are there to stay until all France and Europe are liberated." Strong German counterattacks are developing, but even stronger enemy attacks are expected within the news several days, he declared. Stimson reported that all nine major railroad bridges across the Seine river were destroyed or badly damaged by recent Allied air blows and that this was a major factor in delaying the expected German counterattacks. 2,600 Rail Cars Destroyed Air blows are also continuing against the Germans in Italy. During May, Allied bombers destroyed 60 locomotives and 2,600 railroad cars, Stimson said.

Twice as many locomotives and railroad cars were severly damaged. From the first Allied landings in Italy up to June 5, American casualties in that sector were 11,103 killed, 42,489 wounded and 8,409 missing, Stimson reported. beachhead. the central sector of the front were "Among salvos of heaviest naval mals;" a captured German told me. ditches along the roadside ap The next two or three days are explosives were dropped on the port in two separate attacks.

The first, just before dusk, was the guns, incessant air attacks and with engaged in heavy fighting around expected to show whether the Ger "They screamed and shouted when they charged into our fire. It was freshly brought up infantry and Caumont and Villers-Bocage, with proaching German fortifications in the hills surrounding Carentan. It seemed hopelessly pinned RAF's heaviest daylight bombard man high command has been forced to throw reserves into the tank forces being thrown into ac the Allies holding Caumont but the Germans back in Villers-Bocage ment of the war and its first high- unbelievable." The area was a shambles today tion on both sides, the battle is battle piecemeal as in the past altitude daylight precision effort. down with artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire. The Germans littered the hill of approaching a climax," the Ger man high command declared.

German broadcasts telling of the after a counter attack. Hard Fighting At Villers-Bocage nine days or has been able to keep them intact for a final, all-out Planes had just dive-bombed and progress of the daylight raiders to the attack in scores and Colonel Cole's boys are still talking about strafed them. 14 Transports Sunk, Claim The main fighting -was taking day also reported planes over counterattack. The Tilly Situation his charge up the hill. "It looked like we couldn't go Allied parachute troops which place in front of Villiers-Bocage.

Brandenburg province, in which Berlin is situated. landed behind German lines north Allied troops held high ground fac A front-line dispatch last night east of St Lo were wiped out, the Targets of the American heavies from Associated Press War Corre run a gantlet of deadly fire, over ground liberally strewn with land mines and in the face of organized resistance to take their objective. ing the town a quarter of a mile away. The river Seulles divided today ranged from Nantes, La Poi- broadcast said, and several "stiffly spondent Roger D. Greene indi the German and Allied forces.

sonniere and Angouleme to Beau- defended" villages east of Caumont cated that two or more fresh Ger Surprise Face-To-Face Fights Common In France East of Villiers-Bocage to Tro- vais, La Fnlliere and Bordeaux. were taken by German forces. man armored divisions had been arn, beyond battered and besieged thrown into the battle between Deep Penetration West and nort.i of Ste. Mere Eglise, however, it was admitted, Has Seen Pictures "I speak at some length on this phase." Stimson said, "because I have seen motion pictures taken during the actual fighting there. Caen-and Tilly.

The multiple attack, the deepest Caen, great tank battles raged into their fourth day. The Germans the Allies gained ground. The Germans nowhere in this penetration of France since the in The communique asserted that were using parts of four armored vasion, took the bombers over a II. Stoneman sector have the initiative," a Brit ish staff officer told Greene, how- By William 14 Allied transports totaling divisions. They are the bitterest battle scenes 300-mile expanse from Beauvais, 000 tons and two destroyers were On Cherbourg Peninsula, June ever.

"They are simply reacting to 40 miles north of Paris and 100 other officers were walking along a road east of the Merderet river, not I have ever seen." I The pictures of which Stimson! sunk or damaged by German air Tilly-sur-Seulles, 12 miles west of Caen, changed hands several times. The Germans were reported 14 (Delayed). A surprise party miles east of the battle line, to Bordeaux, 300 miles south of the bombs and torpedoes last night. our moves and are continually be ing jabbed off balance. Montgomery Satisfied 200 yards ahead of battalion head spoke are official army photo lurks around every corner in the "New Landing Foiled" battle zone.

in it last and a Nazi counterattack definitely had retaken Troanr, bat quarters, when they rounded a turn A new Allied landing attempt off American Marauders, pushing "The enemy is extremely sensi kind of warfare which has been going on in the neighborhood of Carentan and Montebourg during and ran right into a German fire- tered into heaps of rubble by air, the mouth of the Orne was foiled tactical support to within a short tive to our actions on the left bank control party of 30 men. sea and land bombardment. the communique said, by coastal of the Caen canal and apparently the last week. distance of the American lines, bombed the Villers-Bocage battle From this area northwest to De Gaulle Instructs French On Civil Rule batteries which dispersed the land feels that our bridgehead there German machine-pistol fire killed one officer and fatally wounded a Advanced parties from both Montebourg the Ninth and Second me formation and damaged a area and also struck around St. Lo, threatens a line to which he may Tactical Air Forces made what was cruiser and destroyer.

mainly attacking road junctions. sides, bent on controlling artillery fire or enemy units, have continu want to withdraw." "The hardness of the fighting Reports indicated that the bomb Allied authorities expressed sat ally met in sudden shooting second, while Vaughan shot three Germans with his .45. He crawled down a hedge row to get help and finally got some stretcher-bearers ing of the Germans' fuel stores was isfaction with the over-all situation. matches as they have stumbled on June 15 CP)- The and the exemplary bearing of our troops of all services are shown in figures indicating success so far hampering the advance of Panzer The enemy is doing all he can to one another. Jeeps and tanks, or French Committee of National Lib formations.

In one attack by the to plug leaks, while we are dailv to go back with him for the wound even supply trucks, have practically achieved, the high command said developing our beachhead and at RAF yesterday. 16 of 40 oil tanks were destroyed. run over German anti-tank guns or cd man under a Red Cross flag. As 'More than 400 enemy tanks and tacking him at every opportunity, eration reported today that Gen. Charles de Gaulle during his trip to the Normandy beachhead had groups of infantry calmly bedded they reached him an American ar Doth to km Germans and to make more than 1,000 aircraft have been destroyed by our troops within the down in foxholes along the narrow Two Air Battles The American heavy bombers' mored car and two jeeps came past, more room for ourselves." it was left everywhere instructions re hedge lines and twisted lanes.

first 10 days of the enemy in garding resumption of civil admin Lines Mean Little vasion. announced last night at the headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Allied ground istration, organization of supplies escort today tangled twice with German fighters.

A group commanded by Col. John B. Henry, of San Antonio, Texas, destroyed four The fact that egimental or bat officially described as "a great number of sorties" in support of the ground forces, many of them from a mounting number of Allied air bases set up with full facilities in captured territory. Le Havre Smash Predicted While a great weight of Allied bombs was being thrown against this movement, an announcement came that several hundred RAF four-engined Lancasters and a fighter escort, in a quick switch to American bombing tactics, had blasted German E-boat pens at Le Havre before dusk last evening with six-ton "factory-busters." It was the RAF's heaviest daylight attack of the war. A second assault was made on the same targets during the night.

Enemy broadcasts reacted to the and public relief. paused momentarily at the crossroads and were destroyed by seven salvos of 88-mm. fire, obviously directed by Germans hiding in hedges with their radio Double Surprise talion headquarters is supposed to In a communique issued through German women snipers causht be between you and the enemy Le Havre Attack Next, Nazis Believe London, June 15 (Reuter) A the French Press Service, the com Nazi fighters, one without firing a shot. means nothing. Each side constant mittee said de Gaulle had been A Lightning group headed by ly has parties well inside the other's lines and at night, with a given a most moving demonstra The next day Vaughan was rid million hedge rows to furnish cov harassing Allied troops in Normandy will be treated as prisoners of war, it was learned today.

Frontline dispatches have indicated that a number of women, trained in the use of small arms, have been firing at the Allied troops. The Germans. German military spokesman was quoted by the German Transocean News Agency today as asking: tion of courage and devotion by the population of Isigny and that elsewhere he was greeted in the same Col. Harold Rau, of Hempstead, N. strafing around Tours, destroyed or damaged a radio station, two locomotives, four box cars, five er for scouting parties, anything can happen.

Thus, it is a wise man who travels cautiously, particularly Is Montgomery planning an atmosphere of immense fervor. flak cars, five trucks and one attack on Le Havre?" in the early morning before the in Trip Strengthen! Bid however, have claimed they were used merely as couriers. This questiton arises from the truders have been spotted and Meanwhile, de Gaulle laid before Norwegian Spitfires surprised 15 mopped up. fact that during the last 24 hours the town has been under a continu British and American political and German planes over the Evreux air base and shot down three. ing a captured German motorcycle halftrack down the main road toward Montebourg, which somebody told him had been captured.

He was two miles ahead of our lines and going strong when he ran into another bunch of Germans, who were just as surprised as he. He came back at top speed, bringing with him one Austrian, who had surrendered during the confusion. The difficulty of moving about military councils a claim of en ous hail of Allied naval and air Communique XSX Encounter 30 Germans Typical is the experience of Capt. thusiastic support from newly RAF Mustangs strafed a German bombardments. Wales Vaughan, of Lansing Mich.

ferry at Quilleboeuf in the Seine estuary. Partisans role in the battle for France, and commented it would have been "tragic if political differences in any way blighted the hopes of advantages to be secured for our cause now by full mobilization of the resistance movement." The Evening Neics called the trip "timely." adding that "like the people of Normandy, citizens of the rest of France wait to hear the voice of a French leader. It is to be hoped that the diplomatic tangles and mysteries surrounding the relationship between Britain and America and de Gaulle be cleared up speedily." The enthusiasm with which the French greeted de Gaulle was marred by a reported disagreement involving employment of French, liaison officers during the invasion. On this subject, however, British-American diplomatic quarters re-mained silent. Yank Passes Time -Reading 'Mein KampP Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, June 15 (JP) A copy of "Mein Kampf" picked up as a souvenir in France by Lieut, Ralph Hofer.

of Salem. Mustang pilot, is helping him to pass the time in England while awaiting a new plane, The United States Strategic Air Forces announced Hofer made a forced landing on an Allied strip in the beachhead area Saturday, when his plane was hit by ground fire, and then toured the battle zone. The book was drawn January 3 from a circulating library by a German named Rudy Salemmo. Hofer will have 29 swastikas painted on his new plane, for 16a liberated Frenchmen to back his demand for recognition of the French Committee of National Lib Three days ago Vaughan and two "Very Well Possible" "It is very well possible that eration as the voice of France. UP FRONT WITH MAULDIN Montgomery should think of shifting the main weight of the invasion front to the east.

(In Washington Secretary of "Since the Allies push toward State Hull declined to be drawn into a discussion of the delicate French political situation. without getting into trouble is increased by the usual crop of Cherbourg made no progress in a direct northerly line, American forces attacked strongly west from De Gaulle was said to be plan rumors and phony reports about where our troops are and what they are doing. Yesterday a nice big batch of correspondents and ning tentatively to return Dneny Saint Mere Eglise to cut off the to Algiers, to report to the French peninsula in that way. They were Consultative Assembly on the result of his discussions with the strongly supported by tanks. Heavy photographers nearly got put into (lie sack because they had been told Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 15 (P) The text of Communique No.

19, issued today at headquarters, follows: On all parts of the front Allied forces continue to carry the fight to the enemy. The heaviest fighting has taken place in the Carentan, Montebourg and Caen areas. Air-borne have successfully beaten off attempts mad by the Germans to retake Carentan and are again push-ing southward from the town. They have also advanced farther to the west in the Les Sablons-Baupte vicinity. Heavy armored attacks and fighting still continues." British and with Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, before calling on President Roosevelt. that we were in Montebourg, whereas the place had been re taken by the Germans. You can hear anything in the Nazi Describes Scene On. Channel London, June 15' (Reuter) A Press Sees Solution The London press, hailed de of news if you only listen to the right people.

Word went around Gaulle's trip to Normandy with the expressed hope it would help solve the ticklish situation. German radio correspondent this through the whole army the other afternoon described the scene in the Channel at night like this: A London Standard editorial day that the British were in the suburbs of Paris, and it is reported almost any morning that we have taken Cherbourg. Now orders have The sea is illuminated by thou characterized de Gaulle's visit to France as "widely welcomed" on both sides of the Channel and said sands of flaming signs of the raging battle in Normandy. It looks as been issued to furnish all units with though the night were filled with kills aloft and 12V on the ground. counterattacks persist in the Caen-Tilly-Sur-Seulles area.

The development of the beaches is making good progress, and the unloading of troops and stores steadily is increasing. Allied Air Forces continued their attacks yesterday afternoon and evening on communications and road convoys in the Cherbourg peninsula in support of our ground forces. Rail traffic was also bombed and in a surprise attack on the enemy airfield at Le Mans about a dozen enemy aircraft were destroyed on the ground. Before dusk heavy night bombers with fighter escort attacked E-boats and the dock-side at Le Havre. During the night they bombed railway centers at Douai, Cam-brai and St.

Pol and troop concentrations at Evrecy and Au-nay-Sur-Odery Five bombers are missing from these operations. Light bombers made night attacks on enemy convoys and concentrations moving on roads towar" the battle area. Reports, as yet incomplete show that 17 enemy aircraft were destroyed in air combat since noon yesterday. Fourteen of our fighters are missing. Seven more enemy aircraft were shot down over Normandy during the night.

copies of BBC news bulletins in order to keep them up to date. rCop.vright. 1944, Chicago Daily Newt. the lights of innumerable lanterns. that "whatever may be the political differences still to be resolved, the paramount need of the hour is that the military campaign should be assisted in every way possible." "The night is alive with the shots Nazis Vary Tank Divisions TODAY'S INDEX of British battleships and cruisers.

The shells racing through space The newspaper saw in the visit 'Invasion Bank' Operating In France With the British Forces in Nor 'recognition" by General Eisen spell death and destruction. When our motor torpedo boats attack then hell seems to be let loose. hower of the importance of the "The enemy's defenses at sea are strong very strong. He guards his illuminated sea road well. mandy, June 15 (Reuter) The army took its own amphibious "invasion bank" to France.

It came in on D-day plus 4 waterproofed Many enemy destroyers herd the convoys like sheepdogs." Nazi General Shot: Bern Bern, Switzerland, June 15 (P) cash boxes filled with four and three quarter million francs (ap Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 15 (rP Ordinary German tank divisions now in operation have about 172 tanks with two regiments of infantry, although the divisions vary widely in relation to equipment. Divisions such as the 12th SS Panzers, which get a priority on equipment, may have as many as 250 tanks, or 172 tanks and a regiment of self-propelled artillery along with two more regiments of infantry. The total strength might range up to 23,000 men. Panzer grenadier regiments proximately a lorry, two To Name Ship For Ensign Bay City, June 15 A tents and three men. The bankers, accustomed to destroyer escort to be launched at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company Page Anagrams 1(5 Bridge 18 Comics 1G Cross-Word Puzzle 10 Financial 21 For Film Fans 18 Pattern l(i Radio 20 Sports 21-23 Talk Of Hollywood 18 Weather 23 Women's Club Bulletin.

18 issuing $40,000 on an average day Gestapo Major General Werner was reported today to have been captured by French Partisans, tried yards here today will bear the in North Africa and England, only name of Ensign Salvatore Cavalla-ro, of New York city, who died of paid out $124 the day their tent opened its canvas entrance to busi-! ness. and executed alter nis reiusai to sign an order releasing imprisoned wounds suffered in action at patriots. The bankers said "this is real. IW4 I nIM FnMr, Sritillratr. Inr, genuine French money brought from the Bank of France before sometimes have no tanks but a battalion of self-propelled guns and about 8.000 men.

Often in battle the Germans add or take avtay units from various divblons. Salerno. Italy, September 9, 1943, and was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously. His mother, Mrs. Angelina Cavallaro, is here to christen the ship.

The uazetle de Lausanne said Werner was captured several weeks ago and that a group of his followers were killed in the skirmish. the collapse we are circulating again." "Ya can't git an expert infantryman's badge without workin' for it, Willie" 1.