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...Worst damage in France is in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen area. Rouen Cathedral is in partial ruin...
...through the water and rolled up to the concrete storage squares. At night powerful searchlights lit the harbor for all-night shifts. (Capture of Le Havre ought soon to ease the strain on Cherbourg and the beaches; now ships will be able to proceed up the Seine itself to Rouen, 75 miles from Paris...
...ramp seized near Rouen was simply a pair of rails 200 feet long and mounted 12 feet apart on ties. The mayor of Rouen said that a high proportion of the robombs launched in that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even reaching the Channel. No less than 26, he said, had exploded on one 40-acre French farm. Many firing crews were said to have been injured or killed at the launching installations. At Arras, Frenchmen said they had been offered 1,000 francs a day to help with the dangerous firing...
Again the Luftwaffe. U.S. medium bombers hit oil dumps in France near Chartres. Argentan and Cerences. The R.A.F.'s new Typhoons, firing rockets that hit with the wallop of a six-inch naval shell, blasted storage tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...
...Berlin radio told the world that flames swept the Rouen cathedral, destroying the roof, ruining the delicate, priceless rose window and melting the great bell which tolled when Joan of Arc burned...