Word: cherbourg
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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...
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...