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The Post-Register, Idaho Palls, Idaho, Thursday, June 8, 1944. Spearhead Troops Meet Bloody Reception in One Invasion Sector Weather, Gunfire Almost Turn Blow; Beaches Uttered dead and four wounded Moroco 3rd I By John A Associated Press War Correspondent Representing the combined American Press ABOARD THE U. S. ASSAULT TRANSPORT THOMAS JEFFERSON, June 6. (Delayed) landing of our spearhead troops on beaches in one sector of northern France today was almost turned into another bloody Salerno by weather conditions which made proper softening up by bombers and warships an impossibility.

The roughness of the water capsized landing craft, swimming (amphibious vehicles) broke up wave and drowned soldiers and sailors, who were seeking to reach shore through the heavy mined area, which also was studded with underwater obstacles. Beaches Strewn The Germans fought fiercely and capably, often driving our boats back to sea when they approached. Many tanks were shot up along with the landing craft. Beaches were strewn with the wrecked equipment. From six foot thick concrete pillboxes disguised as rocks and from batteries hidden In cliffs the Nazis fired anti tank guns, 90, 88 and 50 millimeter weapons, 155 mm.

rifles and 155 mm. howitzers as well as scores of machine guns from emplacements in French homes, Finally Saved Our assault battalion took a hard pounding from the enemy fire and rough surf. Much equipment was left in the landing boats by green troops rushing to dig into the sand. Using cross fire, the Nazis time and time again cut off beaches and isolated troops. Naval gunfire support for the beleaguered troops finally saved the day.

The battleship Texas moved close inshore and silenced a 155 mm. battery in a cliff while destroyers pounded continually at pillboxes. With this aid, troops using flame throwers and grenades gradually choked off the defenders and reinforcements are now streaming aoross the channel in a shuttle service expected to clear the beachhead. Some of the beaches to the right and left of our objectives had little or no resistance, so when our boats were unable to land with supplies they were diverted to other beaches. Terrible, Capt, John D.

Small, 5 West Blackthorn, Chevy Chase, here on a special naval mission, went in on the first boat wave and returned to the transport, saying: is rough. Terrible. Awful. Pillboxes were untouched. The Nazis have a lot of fire power there.

Boxes were disguised as rocks. The Germans controlled water mines from shore Lt. (JG) Ross E. Schumann, 33, Chicago, said his PT boat No. 568 staged duels with machine gun nests along the beaches, knocking out several with the three inch guns.

His ship also blew a military car off the road inland Schumann, who is participating in his third invasion, said naval five inch shells bounced off enemy pillboxes built in the cliff, doing little damage to the heavy concrete facings. He said Rangers captured their beach quickly, but failed to scale the cliffs and silence the 155 mm. battery. Ladders for Cliffs The Rangers had borrowed hydraulic ladders from the London fire department to help scale the cliffs. These ladders had 30 calibre guns lashed to the top rungs.

Schumann said the American flame throwers did excellent work against the fortified houses, in some cases turning areas occupied I by the enemy into a flaming hell. These houses had enabled the Nazis, however, to kill numbers of soldiers advancing across the beaches. One of the first heroes back was Lt. (JG) Charles E. Lavender, 24, of New Zion, S.

commander of the first boat wave, who reported via radio the first landing of U. S. rtoops. He said the gunfire was heavy and the sea rough. His boat saved two soldiers from capsized Water Rough In the midst of the excitement a man fell overboard from our ship but was quickly rescued by a landing boat manned by frozen, tired kids.

When the man fell the mate, Donald 21, of New York City, called a warning while taking time out from his job of hauling boats into the air and draining the water from them so they could go shoreward again. swearing kept the deck crew going. The water became so rough at this point that the boats bringing the wounded back were unable to get them aboard. Reports came in that mines had sunk some of our landing craft, sending the men to death and wrecking guns and other needed equipment. We managed to take and on six men.

Grim cm It was a grim picture near the beaches. We land and many boats spun in aimless circles waiting hopefully for gunfire to clear the beachheads. Rising tides hid underwater obstacles not removed previously. Lt. Jack Bruckner, 25.

Durham, was on a oontrol boat stationed offshore. He said direction of traffic for the landing boats wax made extremely difficult by the rough water and enemy shelling. Lt. (JG) John Kolody, Arnold, who taught science at Indiana (Pa.) high school before joining the navy, made two trips to the beaches. he said, a bloody one even on the first wave.

I met one wave commander who said his whole outfit Went down. There was heavy machine gun fire. Army equipment, tanks and navy boats were on the beach Ahot up Germans Ready For Assault Says Goebbels (Larry Allen, Associated Press war correspondent, who has just returned on the Gripsholm, spent eight months as a Hitler prisoner of war. Following is the picture he brought back of German reaction to Allied invasion plans.) now was in a position herself to! take ths offensive. He made these statements In a recent speech, radiocast on a nation wide hookup.

Goebbels did not elaborate on the reich's plans, but indicated that England would bear the brunt of German fury. Goebbels, who has done most of the talking in Germany this year, asserted there could be no doubt but that the Allies would be beaten back when they assaulted the ring Pilots Report Naval Battle By Peter Gladwin Representing the combined Allied press distributed by the Associated Press. we could not see its effects. In a few moments the E-boats were hidden in their own shroud of smoke screen. We flew the entire trip from base to target and back at an altitude of 3,000 feet, made necessary by the low ceiling of extremely AN ATRBASE IN ENGLAND, June 8.

We flew over a naval of steel that guards the in thf chRnnel before dawn or Kurope, By Larry Allen NEW YORK, June 8. (AV-Nazi Germany professes to know the exact qioment and place ths Allied armies would strike in their Invasion of the of So said diminutive, venom tongued Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, reichsminister for propaganda and of the much bombed city of Berlin. Furthermore, he declared, Deutschland not only was confident of repelling the assault, but Extra Ration Points, Too Late dP) BITLKE, Idaho, June 8 Miner Fred Cutler applied months Wednesday and orossed the French ooast to find the country behind the Normandy beachheads blazing with great fires. The mission of our Mitchell medium bombers whs the same os to cut communications behind the beachhead and impede ago for extra red ration points.

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