Supreme Headquarters Allied
Expeditionary Force—AP,
—The American First Army struck
south along a 40-mile front on Cherbourg Peninsula today, smashing forward up to
2 1/2 miles in the opening hours of a savage attack.
Supreme Headquarters said the
doughboy offensive opened at dawn this morning, along the front stretching across
Cherbourg Peninsula from® St. Lo D'Ourville east to the Carentan area, and then
south to St. Lo, road junction near the center of the Normandy front.
Kingsport,
Tenn., Monday, July 3, 1944
Supreme Headquarters Allied
Expeditionary Force—AP,
—The American First Army struck
south along a 40-mile front on Cherbourg Peninsula today, smashing forward up to
2 1/2 miles in the opening hours of a savage attack.
Supreme Headquarters said the
doughboy offensive opened at dawn this morning, along the front stretching across
Cherbourg Peninsula from® St. Lo D'Ourville east to the Carentan area, and then
south to St. Lo, road junction near the center of the Normandy front.
In one advance of 2^4 miles, the Americana
captured St. Jores, eight miles southeast of St. Saureur Le Vicomte.
No
Rest
The sudden American attack—bursting
forward after a thunderous artillery barrage — followed quickly the mop-up of
Cherbourg and gave the Germans no rest. The |
speed with which Lt. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley turned his First Army about to move south surprised many military men.
Moscow—AP—
Soviet tanks and cavalry struck
within 10 miles of Minsk today, and another column carving deep beyond that
city hammered within 65 miles of Wilno, which is only 100 miles from East
Prussia.
Pounding at the front gates of
Minsk, Red Army men captured Sloboda, 2 1/2 miles to the northeast, and
then pushed within 10 miles of the
White Russian capital.
But by-passing columns already were
sweeping around the city on the northwest and southwest, cutting the Germans'
escape railways to Wilno and to Brest-Lltovsk
The rush on the northwest posed a
threat, to Wilno, former Polish city just 15 miles from the old Lithuanian
border. This drive captured Wilejka, 65 miles due east of Wilno, and 45 miles
northwest of Minsk.
Feels Pressure
The wall erected by the Nazis in front
of the Baltic republics and Poland began.to feel the pressure of the advancing
Red Army as German forces reeled backward in
White Russia in a retreat which Russian
field dispatches described as a wholesale rout.
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