Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take Photographer Bob Landry. Bob set out to get a box seat for the big show at Cherbourg and got caught behind the German lines. He pushed ahead so fast he far outdistanced our own infantry-didn't discover he had crossed No Man's Land until bullets from the German snipers and machine-gunners began kicking up dust all around him. Meanwhile our own dive bombers were plastering the whole area, and one of Landry's comrades reported later that "only a few hundred yards from where we were crouching the Germans in their fortifications were...
...flew to France in General Brereton's transport," Graebner reported. "Then Generals Brereton and Royce, Air Marshals Coningham and Bottomley and I piled into a jeep and command car and headed up the peninsula along the long straight road to Cherbourg. Later we flew along the American and British lines. Allied fighter bombers and rocket-carrying Typhoons screeched and screamed across the sky just south of our plane...
Plump, pink-cheeked Mme. Chideu runs a little grocery store near the Cherbourg water front. Housewives who come in for fruit, milk, butter and vegetables love to gossip with the patronne over anything & everything, from the latest grapevine news to the capers of les americains. Last week TIME Correspondent William Walton walked into Mme. Chideu's shop. He asked her and some of her customers how things were going, came away with a human report on Allied fiscal policy in one corner of France...
...currency, hence brought their own. But in Normandy they found the greater part of the local currency available. From vaults deep within the ruins of the Valognes bank they dug up 100 million francs. With that buried treasure, plus what was in people's socks and hands, the Cherbourg area had a normal amount of normal money in circulation...
Last week officials of the Cherbourg Museum told how the Vichy government insisted that they crate up Cherbourg's art works, provide transportation to take them to Vichyfrance. The Nazis changed the ad dress on the crates-to Germany...