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...Apparently the Nazis still have it in for TIME," he cabled last week, "for I tried twice to get into Caen before the city fell and ran into a curtain of artillery fire both times-first in the British sector, later in the Canadian. ... Then along came two Frenchmen as unconcerned as if they were on a walking tour. 'Oh, no, mes amis, the Boche are not shelling.' So into the jeep we got and headed again for Caen...
...Yards. British and Canadian troops who had driven into Caen were stalled by Nazi forces pulled back into the suburbs of the town, across the Orne River. The main offensive push was staged by U.S. troops at the west side of the front. They drove steadily along the roads to the south, where they must break out into the base of the Normandy peninsula. At week's end patrols entered one key town, Lessay, near the west coast. But inland strong points were still held by the Germans. One day's U.S. advance toward Saint-Lô covered...
Then the attack pendulum swung back to the Caen sector, where the British Second Army jumped off in a new offensive on a nine-mile front southwest of Caen. The drive punched ahead for two and a half miles, then slowed as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel moved five divisions to stave off a breakthrough. German headquarters said the fighting might soon reach a new high of intensity and decide the fate of the Norman front...
...exquisitely spired Gothic church of St. Pierre, built in 1308. St. Pierre's spire stood unscathed through the bombardment of Caen in 1563, during the Wars of Religion...
...paratroopers' task was to capture intact the vital bridges spanning the River Orne near Caen. Things went pretty well until one company was cut off by the Nazis. Most of the men were badly wounded and there was no one to care for them. Chaplain Parry volunteered to go and help. Under cover of darkness he crawled to the isolated position, found the medical post, helped dress wounds and cheer...