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...holdover from the first week's uncompleted assignment-was to use the British and Canadian forces on his left flank as a parry to ward off. Rommel's jabs, while he used Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's U.S. army in a right swing against Cherbourg. Simultaneously, Montgomery had to win the "Battle of the Build-up." He had to bring in, over the beaches and through emergency landing facilities on the Bay of the Seine, enough men and material to make sure that he could stop the major counterblow by Rommel if & when it came...
...problem was to take Cherbourg, and to take it fast. To this task a U.S. army under Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley was assigned. It was known in advance that the Americans' job would be tough: the Nazis had flooded 500,000 acres around Carentan to depths up to seven feet. Four days after landing, the Americans captured some of the sluice gates at Trevieres, started to drain the drowned land. But there was no assurance that the land would dry out enough to permit maneuver by heavy armor...
...their colonel, a 1938 West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads to airfields where later paratroopers would land. Word trickled back to their base last week that at least some of them were still alive-and therefore, of course, still fighting...
...smoke of flaming Isigny is still in my eyes. When we entered that picturesque provincial town yesterday in the wake of our conquering troops, the main street was a long row of crackling, collapsing buildings. Nearly everything along the cobblestoned Rue de Cherbourg was on fire except the enamel highway sign which proclaimed Cherbourg to be 61 kilometers (about 38 miles) ahead...
...third pages of the lead invasion article appeared a detailed, double-page panoramic drawing showing great Allied fleets of planes and ships hurtling from England toward a section of the French coast which would have been easily recognizable even without the names identifying its chief cities: LE HAVRE, CAEN, CHERBOURG. Explanation of this astonishing bull's-eye: LIFE'S editors, knowing no more than any other laymen about where the invasion would strike, had simply chosen what seemed to them a likely spot. Like the seven other drawings in LIFE'S invasion story, this one had been...