Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been ordered to fight to the death did die. Many others surrendered meekly and marched out under guard, their hands clasped over their heads. In 24 hours near the end, 3,400 Nazis gave themselves up; Allied staff officers guessed that the total German loss in and around Cherbourg might...
...last centers of strong resistance were around the city post office, a naval arsenal, the seaplane base. Attacking troops, weary, grimy but intent on the kill, surrounded them and drove in for the final mop-up. As they closed the battle for Cherbourg engineers were moving in behind to help reopen the great Atlantic port to sea traffic...
...bombing, the Allies did their best to knock down the robot-launching platforms around Calais. When the invasion troops closing on Cherbourg captured two platforms almost intact, British experts moved in at once to study them. However, the platforms were heavily camouflaged, often tucked away in the corners of woods. Others may have been dug into cliffs in bombproof positions...
This week the Army went to work on an operation which the forehanded Lutes and his staff began plotting in August 1943. They had listed cement, steel, tools, machinery needed to rebuild the port of Cherbourg. All the stuff was loaded onto a small fleet of ships, some of which were complete machine shops, and held in readiness in U.S. ports. Before D-day the little fleet started for France, was on hand to move into Cherbourg the day the port fell...
Captain Joseph M. Patterson's battery of headline writers for the huge New York Daily News took Cherbourg six times last week. Their banner communiqu...