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American Dead on Normandy Beach Monday, June 12, 1944 SAN BERNARDINO DAILY SUN Page 3 MONTGOM ERY WARD I Hand-fo-fiand Fighting Rages Near Carenfan Nazi Paratroopers Reject Surrender Ultimatum by U. S. By HENRY T. GORRELL WITH AMERICAN FORCES OVERLOOKING CARENTAN, June 11 (7:45 p.m.) (IP) Hand-to-hand fighting has been raging for hours in the outskirts of Car-entan. German paratroopers have turned down an ultimatum to surrender and they continue to fight back from behind concrete pill i Lin.

ri boxes. 5 American doughboys and tanks to the northwest have crossed the Merderet river in a spectacular victory in the face of fire from everything the Germans could throw at them. They have driven on to the north in an advance which the Germans failed to halt 'Hftii 2l.J l- iZJjUk ici: uei Dead American soldiers lie on a Normandy beach after being mowed down in the early hours of the Invasion by German defenders. with their rocket launchers. CROSS UNDER FIRE A bloody battle was anticipated at the Merderet river.

The Ger mans were lying in hurriedly pre-nared defenses on the west bank They were broken loose by our bombing and artillery fire. Our Courageous American Rangers Silence Deadly Nazi Shore Battery, Nearly Half of Them Die infantrymen effected a crossing I js if. .1 desDite heavy machine eun and mortar fire and a bombardment by German 88-mm. guns, but the yards toward the base of the point By LEWIS HAWKINS casualties were far fewer than had to view the German billet Sgt. William Petty of Cohutta, been estimated.

ABOARD ADMIRAL HALL'S FLAGSHIP, OFF NORMANDY, June 9 (Delayed) CP) Before D-day there was a battery of six (fl-rk V' A group of 50 American nurses has iust arrived to tend the mowed down dozens of the enemy with a Browning automatic wounded. before the defenders had time to turn themselves fully toward the cliff, Company commanded by Lt. George Kerchner of Baltimore, headed down the road leading from the base of the point looking for guns. They fought through, knocking out snipers and some pill boxes on the way. Then at about noon Sgts.

Jack Kuhn of Altoona, and Len Lomell of Point Pleasant, rifle. GOT ABOUT 30 "I guess maybe I got about 30," Only a short distance from our reeimental camp the reserves which the Germans sent from in he said. "I'd let them get along t's Dad's turn! the patch quite a way from the house, then I'd let them have a land France to defend the Coten-tin peninsula are engaging our infantry, and in an adjoining pasture French women are calmly burst from the bar and wait for found four guns emplaced along a tree-covered lane half a milking their remaining cows. INDIFFERENT TO GUNS some more. I guess they finally had enough because seven of them came out and surrendered." Despite the difficulties, the rangers took between 40 and 50 mile from the point.

Quick shots disposed of the guns' Our self-propelled 105-mm. guns are firing a drum barrage, and prisoners, including some Italians defenders, and thermite bombs in the breeches put them out of action. The remainder of the company came up, but the Germans, the earth trembles to the combined crash of our shells and aerial bombs. But the women whose freckled knees show above their and Poles. Pressure became too strong in the advanced position, so Company FATHER'S DAY IS JUI2E I8TI1 getting organized now, drove them blue knitted stockings seem totally away from the useless cannon.

Return to the point now was impos indifferent. I walked across the fields Sat withdrew late in the afternoon of D-day to the edge of the cliff, joining Company under command of Second Lt. Ted Lapres, sible for the group that had been reduced to fewer than 20 men urday morning, climbing through barbed wire and passing 'over a big guns planted on a cliff of an insignificant bit of Normandy protruding out into the bay of the Seine. These former French long-range rifles were capable of throwing six-inch shells 10 or more miles out to sea and directly into the area in which transports were to gather for the start of the invasion. 1 Those guns never fired a shot for Hitler and this is the story of how they were silenced by courageous American rangers.

RANGERS DID JOB U. S. planes and warships pulverized the point of land on which the battery was located, but the guns were knocked out mainly because about 200 rangers climbed the cliff, overcame the guns' defenders and held on for three days in as splendid a show of dogged courage as American fighthing men ever have displayed anywhere. The rangers who went on this assignment were companies and of the second ranger battalion. Out of about 200 who started out, there were approximately 70 left on the shore when I talked to them today.

the others, between 30 and 40 had been wounded and evacuated to England. The rest nearly half the original contingent were dead. These green men well trained, former Dartmouth hockey star steep embankment, to find myself from Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill. face to face with a German cav- and so, as Kerchner said, they spent the next two days "shootin' and sweatin' in a hedgerow with a ditch running down the middle of it. In a pocket 500 yards long and alryman who had been shot through the head.

There were six Meanwhile company, under 50 yards deep around the tip of the point, these boys held out through Tuesday, Wednesday and until midday Thursday, when other rangers and infantry came in from the east. more corpses in the field. All seven Germans had been running toward shelter when they were Lt. Robert Arman of Lafayette, pushed some 300" or 400 killed. Hollywood Actors Help Mrs.

Gleason Albemarle Sound in North Car olina is the largest coastal fresh-water sound in the world. LOS ANGELES, June 11 UP) ii mm IfliMtiSMl ifilMl wmm Hollywood celebrities rallied If holding this cliffside pocket had been merely a matter of standing off frontal attacks by machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire, it would have been tough enough for the rugged little band, but the position had several tunnels which enabled the Germans to take a shot and then, while the Americans were looking for them, pop out of another tunnel off to the side or even behind them. CFOR BATH BABY around to help Mrs. Lucille Finerl Smootherl Really vn- Webster Gleason, wife of Actor usual! Adsorbs perspiration. Helps prevent irritation.

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Maybe even a gift for WORK (Dad will appreciate COMFORT on his (ob as much as on his time off -a roomy work shirt or work-or-play pants. These are just a few of but not battle baptized were given a tough job. Things went wrong and hell broke loose around their heads, but they stuck in there and they did their job. The plan called for these three companies to land at 6:30 a.m. immediately after the D-day bombardment ended and to scale the cliff, then to send a signal flare to the remainder of the second ranger battalion waiting offshore.

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Earl Rudder of Eden, Texas, hefty former Texas A. and M. footballer, ordered the course reversed. NEARLY HOUR LATE They got back to the designated point, but the operation was nearly an hour behind schedule. Using rope ladders and fighting through grenade and rifle fire from the top, the men scaled the cliff within 20 minutes.

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