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THE ALLIES
From D-Day To Ve-Day BY THE
Eisenhower's Report
By LT. GEN H. G. MARTIN
Cen. Eisen-
It was vital for the
WAY
By BEACHCOMBER
Gen. Eisenhower's report to breaking out across the Orne robbed by midsummer of most Dr. Strabismus (whom God the Combined Chiefs of Staff towards the Seine."
of ita productive capacity and preserve) of Utrecht recently The struggle which also deprived of the adequate constructed at Waggling Parva on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force | took place during this period of reserves necessary to maintain an enormous. hydraulic clay from June 6, 1944, to May 8, the establishment of the lodg-front line strongth,
pipe. 1945, will serve finally to comment pren, following the auc--
Without the Over-
This was lowered into a pool fute those who seek to distort cess of our initial assault, took whelming, mastery in the air of soapy water, and soap bub- the events of the campaign in the form of a hard glugging which we attained by D-Duy ales of an unwonted (not “un- North-Western Europe and so match on the British sector of our assault against the Con-wanted," as the Lvening Flend estrange the British and Amerithe front. with the city of tinent would have been a most said in a leading article), size can Allies.
Caen as its focal point.
if not hazardous
impossible were blown by hidden 'pressure. The spirit of the report in "Here the enemy concentrat undertaking.
The pipe was square, and the admirably expressed by the fel-ed the bulk of his strength,
By D-Day the Strategic bubbles, Iridescent ns be han lowing pasango which I take while the men of the United Air Forces together with the ged to you, resembled, houses, from its conclusion:
States First Army fought thoir Tactical-Air Forces had so auc- For a moment, as they hunt, "The United Statca of way up the Cherbourg Penin- cessfully performed their mis- like the gardens of Babylon, America and Great Britain have sula to capturé w port itself, Lion of disrupting enemy com-twixt earth and sky, it was worked, not merely as Allies, subsequently regrouping and munications that there was a thought that all housing pro but as one nation, pooling their consolidating their position to chronic shortage of locomotives blems had been solved. But, resources of men and material the mouth in preparation for and cars, repairs facilites were alas for human endeavor, they alike, in this struggle against what was to prove the decisive inadequate, coal reserves Te burst, leaving nothing but a the end of duced to six days supply, and sonpy spray on the faces of the The Conference of Foreign the forces of evil engendered by breakthrough t
74 bridges and tunnels leading research-workers. } Ministers is now making excellent Hitler's Germany. In the Ex- July.
peditionary Forces which it has
By the anxiety to pre-to the battle area were impas-.
Blow-Hard progress though it is too soon to buen my privilege to lead, both vent the capture of Caen and able. The communications' "A burst of sausage, and we suggest that its troubles are over. in the Mediterranean theatr: the eastward extension of our chaos thus, produced had a fatal know that spring is here." So Several major issues have been and in North-Western Europe, beachhead, the enemy to some effect upon tho enemy's at wrote Harriet Martineau to disposed of in the last three weeks an Allied experiment un extent contributed to the ne- tempts at reinforcement of the Ruskin. And the words came and the outlook justifies an precedented in the history of corapilaliment of our initial plan, thyer fened areas after our land-back to me as I watched an optimism hardly imagined pos- the world has been carried out in 80 fur as the capture of ing.
exter looking at his plate. He sible when the Big Four resumed with decisive results,"
Cherbourg was concerned, and
The attack against the said quietly, "Is this anuang their labours. M. Molotov has,!
So full a report-it runa to from D plus six or seven the German vil industry commenced He was told, courteously that !! 149 pages--is impossible to battle developed in general as in April and continued until the certainly was sausage, within in fact, returned to Paris ma
summarise in any detail, I pro- foreseen.
termination of our operations. the meaning of the Act (16. N. more accommodating mood, and pose, therefore, to select certain
The subsequent shortage Vic, there has inevitably been a like controversial questions and to enemy to
cap. 27, 1889. 26 e/g. deny us the Seine of il contributed to the crim-104/26). He then prodded it as response. Whether it fore- allow Gen, Eisenhower to saswer bashi, partly as it afforded the|plete collapse of the German though he expected it to emit shadows happier relations altu- these in his own words.
last natural barrier defending bomber force and must have an amusing squeak, and sniffed gether is another matter, though i The Original Plan the V.1 and V.2 sites, partly be had its effect on the decline, round it, like retriver with indications that way would be]
cause he needed the river ferry of the U-boat menace.. Succesfully Executed
bloater. fis the tasted it warmly welcomed. The 20-year QUESTION - Generally, inforcements to his divisions in aned the crpture of tens of delicate bather af the water's
to bring over supplies and re- "Immobility from oil shortage gingerly, drawing back like Anglo-Soviet treaty of friendship did Field-Marshal Viscount Normandy, party because he thousands of German and alliance binds the two coun- Montgomery, a
soldiers edge. I left him nibbling w feared a thrust in Paris which and the tries to work together in close hower's "Battle-Line Counman would cut off all his forers to vehicles. Lack of oil and com- palate the 04 flavors that po to destruction of their happily and rolling round his and friendly collaboration, after dei" in the Battle of Normandy, the west, partiy because he munications shuttered by air make up the noble musage of the re-establishment of peace, for successfully implement fie foresaw a threat to Le Havre, bombardment retarded divisions today. the organisation of security and
operational pan as it had bren which was an juvaluable base arriving to reinforce the Nor-¡
Epitaph for his naval
front craft operating mandy
in economic prosperity in Europe, originally drawn up?
June. By Yes. The original “Cosuc":
Here in this narrow plot of and to act in accordance with the plan of altnek.
against the apptouched to the December, when Vo Rund- na revised by
who flew as assault area, but perhaps most sicut's forces attacked in the fast as sound; Up to the moon,
ground, Lies one principles "of not seeking terri- Montgomery and finally p torial aggrandizement for them- proved by Eisenhower himself of all because he wished to Battle of the Ardennes, many and back again; And now in
avold the possibility of a link units had to set out with ex- dead, like other men. selves and of non-interference in
involved a D-Day assault up between those Allied forces tremely limited supplies of the internal affairs of other on a five divisional front on the already ashore and those which fuel.
The Wynfevers Fish States." At the close of the cheed intween Gristreham he expected to land in the Pas Next I should put tactlenl} An offer of the Boulton Wyn-
5132:1 Varreville, Teheran Conference in Novem-mediate purpose of establishing.
with the im-! de Calais.
fevers goldfish to the National surprise:
refused, and Trust has bech ber, 1943, Marshal Stalin, Mr. beachheads to ceommodate the rght of the Carman reactions, eluded that any erosa-Channel Lord Shortcake
Our strategy, in the
The enemy had con-
is making in- Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill follow-up trejis. The Initial: issued a joint statement declaring objectives of the attack includ- us to hit hd in the east in expedition was impossible while quiries about a goldfish canc
order to contain
the main the sens ran so high and, with tuary off Gurnard's Head in that "we look with confidence to ed the capture of Caen, Bayeux. enemy strength there while con- his radar installations Fendered Cornwall. Meanwhile Nigh- A private the day when all peoples of the Isigny and Carentan, with the solidating our position in the ineffective as the result of our fancier who owns world may
live free lives. un touched by tyranny and according the essential port of Cherbourg around Chen, which wemed to unpreparedness Thereafter our forces were to cost so much
at our arrival to Boulton Wynfevers to meas to their varying desires and their advance on Brittany with the small territorial gains, was thus which we experienced.
blood for such more than offset the difficulties about, and the little beasts were own consciences. We came here object of capturing
put through their paces, auch the ports an essential factor in ensuring with hope and determination. We, southwards to
"Apparently, he had assumed as they are. "Get them to swim 'Nanten. Our
said the our ultimate success. leave here friends in fact, in spirit next and main aim was to drive
that we could make our attempt round in reverse,"
Danc. "They are not mechani- "The very tenacity of the dealy when there was a new and in purpose." At the Yalta east on the line of the Leire in fence there was sufficient proof muun and on a high tide, and cal fish," said Lord Shortcake Conference 18 months ago dife the general direction of Paris, of this. AB I told the Press that, in choosing the place of acidly. "They swim clockwise."
added his across, the Seine,
lordship. "We same statesmen reaffirmed their and north
correspondents at the end of assault we should pick the im- "determination
with the purpose of destroying August, every
Danes, was the reply, uttered to build in VO-
foot of ground mediate neighbourhood of ล
turn-and-awim the other way nations a world order under law, the west. dedicated to peace, security, free- "Because it was ultimately in-
"In point of fact, we attack-round the bowl avery now and On June 28 the British the moon was full; we landed?ped Shortcake.
Conversation Piece away from large harbours and of mutual good will and common directly from American ports, Eighth Corps established
"When my father died," said purpose were matched among the American troops were assigned bridgehead some 4,000 yards at some points below sheer tall, thin, distinguished- British people by sentiments of the right flank of the operation. wide and 1,000 yards dinep he- cliffs; and the watere through the genuine cordiality and admiration They were to táke Cherbourg yond the Odon River near Mon- which we approached the shore looking gentleman who found towards their ally, sentiments of and the Brittany ports as sup- drainville. The greater part of were so strewn with reef and himself next to Captain Foule- strong currents nough at dinner, "four generals ply bases, while the British, eight armoured divisions was subjected to which the £7,000,000 subscribed driving east and
north along now flung into the battle by the that the German naval experts carried the bier."
"Good drinking," said Foule- to Mrs. Churchill's Aid to Russia the const, were to seize the enemy in a fruitless attempt to had declared it would be im
nough, Fund afforded an outward and Channel ports, as far north as halt the advance and to cut the possible for landing craft... visible token. It has been tragic Antwerp, through which they Allied corridor north of the We achieved a degree of tactical
surprise for which we had hard-the German High Command an to contrast the dreary round of were to be supplied directly river.
Incessant pressure byly dared to hope."
assault upon the Pas de Calais discord at the Council of Minis- from England."
By U plus 90, the gen- the Second Army to contain the Strategic Deception
would be the obvious operation ters, the iron curtain that divides eral Allied front was to stand enemy's strength was therefore 15th Army Inoperative for the Allies to undertake... the East from the West of on the Seine from 1 Havre continued by Field Marshal Tactical surprise was Im-Acting on the assumption that Europe, the total negation of the to Paris on the north, and along Montgomery during July.mensely helped by the Pas de this would be the German es- high promise augured at Teheran the Loire from Nantes to Field Marshal Montgomery's Calais strategic deception: timate, we did everything pos and Yalta. The British people Oricans, Fontainebleaut and tactical handling of this situa-
We thought that to CARNIVAL
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airfields in their vicinity, and west. The reaulting struggle air attacks, his consequent aquarium in Denmark has been
operation with other peace-loving German forces in this area of losing 10 miles anywhere else. and shallow, dangerous waters.
45. many as possible of the the enemy lost at Caen was like good harbour and avoid cliffa with dignity, "like our fish to
Montgomery's Part
dom and the general well-being tended to supply the United Second Army Pressure ed shortly after low tide when then. "Eccentric rot," snap-
of mankind." These expressions: States forces engaged in Europe
11
may be pardoned if they are not Paris on the south and enst."tion was masterly. a little mystified as to how and From the beginning, there- .. Still, as over (August remained why distrust and suspicion have fore, it was clearly Eisenhower's 13), the Chen sector developed. They are unconscious infention, no less than Mont the most sensitive, part of the gomery's,' that the American] front in the north, and the of anything either in their own First Army should make the Allied progress was slow and attitude or in the conduct of their initial break-out from the dearly bought against the official spokesmen to have pro- benchhend on the Allied riglit, strongest defences yet encoun voked so lamentable a change. This, in fact, it did. More-tered in the campaign. They realise the profound dif- over, the Allles had made their On August. 17 Falaise was final- ferences between the way of life first crossing of the Seine byly occupied, From our landingsi and institutions in Britain and in D. plus 75-that le, 15 days in Juno until that day the. Russia, but they see in these no ahead of schedulo,
barrier to friendliness and mutual Caen-Falaise Battle
enemy's resistance in this sec tor had exacted. more Allied bloodshed for the ground yield-
co-operation. Adherence to the Slowness Refuted ed than in any part of the Teheran principle of "non-inter- QUESTION 2-In particular, | campaign. ference in the internal affairs of was 21 Army Group's progress "Without the great sacrificen other States" should make it pos- in the Caen-Falaise fighting un-made here by the Anglo- sible for Communism and de- justifiably slogy?
Canadian armies in the brutal mocracy to live side by side with No. During the days follow blugging battles, first for Cuen out clash and with reciprocal res-ing D-day exploiting the and then for Falaise, the spot. pect. The Yalta principle of the 3rd British and 3rd Can- by the Allied forces could never success achieved on D-Day, they tacular advances made claowhore "dedication to peace; security, adian (Divisions) pushed south- have come about." freedom and the general well-ward; and, despite heavy being of mankind" offers a post-casualties, succeeded, on June · Battle Of Normandy tive focus for common effort, 7. in reaching points some two Why the Germans Failed born of common suffering, to or three miles north and north- QUESTION D—What were! establish international, relations on west of the city (Caen). How the basic causes of the Gorman a rational mid caduring basis. Itever, the Enemy fully appreciat failure in the Battle of Nor is too soon to hope that these employing the tanks of the The primary cause was the
ed the danger in this sector and, mandy?: things will come to pass, and it 21st, Panzer and 12th 8.3. losing by the Luftwaffe of the would be futile to deny that the Fanser Divisions,"counter"- Battle of the Alt. N Y events of the first twelve months attacked successfully in: ident In Decomber, 1945, the Ger« of peace have made their fulfil tank country. Subsequent mans planned to produce 8,000 ment appear icmate The Paris events showed that the roten single-seater dghters per talks have revived hope to some tion of the city was the key to month. Beginning in Janu- extenei Teichmidwill" errecked the mainý enomy strategy and ary, 1044, however, the assaults. Früne komething of the Spirit en-during the struggle of the fol upon aireraren doction centres lowing twosk the Germans wore interained and the effect. shrined by the King in the Sword Toughe Zuriously, to deny us pod- of kiteng attacke was such that
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