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More than 1,400,000 French buildings have been destroyed. At least 600 communities, little ones like Le Bosquel and big ones like Le Havre and Brest, must be rebuilt. Ports, railways and roads have first priority. A nation struggling with hunger, lack of transport, shortages of every kind, the manifold readjustments of liberation, can move only slowly to remove the scars of destruction. But it can plan...
...from Nor mandy, the Ninth's first action was a swing into Brittany, while the First and Third wheeled left to liberate northern France. Later the Ninth accepted the surrender of Major General Erich Elster, Nazi commandant of southwestern France, with 20,000 enemy troops. After it captured Brest, the Ninth disappeared from the public eye, and apparently from the German eye as well, until it slammed into action north of Aachen. In the grinding progress toward the Roer, it got its first solid battle experience...
...evacuation. They knew that when Joseph Stalin's forces had finished their Baltic campaign, four whole army groups could bear down on East Prussia from the north. Though they admitted extensive "disengaging" movements, they showed some signs of preparing to fight for Riga like another Sevastopol or Brest. The forests and marshes around the city were strewn with mines, bristled with machine-gun nests...
...estimated numbers (some now prisoners) whom the Nazis left behind: Cherbourg 35,000; Saint-Malu 4,000; Brest 35,000; Lorient 10,000; Saint-Nazaire 10,000; Le Havre 9,000; Boulogne 7,000; Calais 10,000; Dunkirk 10,000; Mouth of the Scheldt...
...keep supplies moving across hundreds of miles and to see that the commanders at the front get what they need. In one not unusual day last week he covered 800 miles by air and about 100 by land, checked up on his supply lines from Brest to close behind the front, conferred at various hours with General Eisenhower, Bradley and half a dozen other commanders, and reached his quarters precisely at 7:50-as scheduled...