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...unexpected catastrophes of battle, the war peak will be reached in three more months, stay on a plateau for a little while, then start downward. Some war items may even be stepped up (e.g., tank production, only a trickle for months, was ordered into high gear last week when beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many of the manifold problems...
...Target. Early reports indicated that the fight was going slowly against fanatical resistance. After making the beachhead, U.S. amphibious troops had given some ground before fierce Jap counterattacks, but they hung on. By the third day they were ready to press forward...
Goebbels Gobble. The German reaction was equally characteristic. If the new weapon was of no use to Rommel on the beachhead, it was a godsend to Goebbels on the radio...
From the Allied beachhead, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled a coolly realistic account of Normandy and the Normans...
General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of Allied Ground Forces in the European Theater, put in a full week fighting and entertaining on the Normandy beachhead. Jaunty Monty's guests included...