Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lorient -U.S. soldiers plugged at a less spectacular pace. The British, ready to close on Le Havre, hoped it would not become another Brest. But they had little hope that the Germans, if they were squeezed out, would not first clog its deep port with destruction, as they had Cherbourg...
...division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...
Westward. Omar Bradley, the infantryman's general, was using the greatest U.S. striking force in World War II. In the Normandy stalemate after the brilliant capture of Cherbourg, he had used it tentatively, so G.I.s seemed to think, among the baffling hedgerows of the bocage country. But when the breakthrough came there was nothing tentative about it: Bradley kept plowing ahead without giving the Germans a chance to recover their balance...
Devastating barrages like those laid down at Cherbourg, Saipan and Guam have eaten deep into the Navy's store of bombardment ammunition: 41,000 tons of shells have been fired at Jap and German shore defenses alone-230 times the total used to win the Spanish-American war. The need for rockets, for both ships and planes, is increasing. There is also a deficit in 40-mm. antiaircraft guns and in the ammunition they shoot...
...based upon fragmentary evidence-upon the six clippings which I received yesterday and upon a few recent Honolulu and West Coast papers which have drifted in here. I know this story broke at a time when it had to compete with several other big stories: the investment of Cherbourg, the flight of B-29s to Japan, the Republican National Convention. The American press, with its stubborn refusal to recognize the Pacific, played it for a very bad fourth...