Word: cherbourg
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...Phase 1 the Allied armies had assaulted the coast. Phase 2 ended when the beachhead was firmly established. In Phase 3, Lieut. General Omar Bradley's First U.S. Army enveloped and captured the port of Cherbourg. Not until Cherbourg fell could General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Allied ground commander in France, begin Phase 4: the crashing drive into the vitals of the enemy...
...hamstrung in trying to move men and supplies over a network of highways and railroads that had been wrecked with ruthless precision by superior Allied air power. While their main local reserves butted in vain against the British, they had been helpless to stop the American drive at Cherbourg...
Saturday: YANK BAYONETS SLASH PATH INTO CHERBOURG...
Sunday: YANKS STORM CHERBOURG'S LAST HEIGHTS...
...Monday: CHERBOURG IS OURS...