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Germans' Guess. In this division of duties, the more spectacular role went to U.S. VII Corps troops, battling toward Cherbourg. Infantrymen of the 4th Division smashed into Montebourg, and the Germans decided this was the main drive, in a straight line for Cherbourg...
Sealed for Destruction. The 9th had done the job: Cherbourg was sealed off. Around it the Germans had most of three divisions and some Marines. How long could they hold out? The U.S. troops turned north, began to fight out the answer. This week they were within eight miles of their goal, shelling...
Although the Allied move to envelop, capture and develop Cherbourg as a port was plainly behind schedule, the campaign was running smoothly, overcoming great handicaps. Said Bradley: "The Germans have lost their last chance to drive us into...
Rommel had stopped the invaders in this area primarily because he (or Rundstedt) had guessed wrong again. They obviously thought that the Allies' first big objective would be not Cherbourg but Le Havre...
Whether he could begin it before Cherbourg was taken, or would have to wait for a big port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...