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They had covered 55 miles in 36 hours to take Le Mans. From there they had shot out more columns, reportedly to within sight of the magnificent Gothic cathedral at Chartres, only 30 miles from Paris.
Already the Americans had anchored the Allied flank on the Loire near Nantes. To the east was open, rolling country, interlaced with direct roads to Angers, Le Mans, Tours, Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat...
Aircraft Repair and Storage Depots: Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light...
> On the slopes of Mt. Etna and its foothills and on ridges overlooking the Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and...
On July 4 this week the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated a technical anniversary by giving an aircraft factory at Le Mans in France its second bombing of the week ("They can just cross that factory off the list"). Fortresses also attacked airplane repair shops at Nantes and U-boat...