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...least 1,000 guns were battering the elaborate French-built defenses of Cherbourg. Infantrymen with grenades, bazookas and dynamite charges cleaned out the inland strongholds, Fort du Roule and Octeville. From the sea a naval task force, including battleships and cruisers, stood in to batter and silence the big harbor installations, Fort des Flamands and Pelee Island...
...Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland, the new British Black Prince, the British monitor Erebus. Closer in shore stood the cruisers and, even closer, the destroyers - the whole great armada, spread out from horizon to horizon, try ing to batter down the Atlantic Wall. Overhead were 8,000 planes of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth and Ninth Air Forces, adding their big and little bombs to the destruction. Grey-black clouds puffed up from the land to shroud the sun rising over Normandy. he Wreckers. Under the fiery canopy...
When D-day comes, Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia promises that his Partisan armies will take the offensive too, thrusting north into Germany's underside while our men batter at the western beaches...
Cannon of basic design that goes back to the Civil War (when breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...
Cannon of basic design that goes back to the Civil War (when breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...