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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...
...French in Cherbourg are deeply touched by the deference shown them. U.S. and British authorities are in turn impressed by the friendly efficiency of the French. Says Colonel Howley: "If the French elsewhere in France buckle down to the job of reconstruction as they have here in Cherbourg, leaving recrimination aside, France has a period of greatness ahead of her which even exceeds the past...
...From Normandy: It was the afternoon that Cherbourg fell, and the fighting was still pretty hot. We went a little way and a 20-mm. began shooting at us from be hind. Most of the G.I.s hit the dirt behind a wall. Ernie, who was talking to a couple of them, kept standing and kept his hands in his pockets. I watched his face as he went down the street and he was scared all right. A little later we got mixed up in a tank-v.-pillbox duel and the pillbox knocked the tank out right outside...
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...