Word: cherbourg
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...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
...organized the burial of thousands of dead horses and cattle, turned over to farmers horses captured from the Germans, moved 4,000 refugees from the Caen area to the Cherbourg suburbs, imported medical supplies for Caen's wounded civilians...
...Worst damage in France is in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen area. Rouen Cathedral is in partial ruin...
...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...
...returns to Cherbourg again by a parallel route. On this express belt some 9,000 trucks roll day & night at 40 miles an hour - at night with headlights ablaze, for speed is necessary and the German air force negligible. Every 30 or 40 miles, maintenance companies are stationed to make quick repairs...