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Show of a French port will facilitate the hand'mg of supplies, despite destruction by the enemy. - He point out that engineers built new docks at Naples over the wreckage wreck-age of old ones and sunken hulks and that port is handling more tonnage than it ever did in peacetime. Every Bridge Taped ' For The Invasion Some idea of the immense preparations pre-parations which were made for the invasion of Normandy comes from Lieut-Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, Som-ervell, commanding U. S. Army Service Forces who reveals that every bridge and stream in France that the Allies "intend to cross" has been "taped" and "there is a portable bridge in place' either in England or on the French bridgehead, bridge-head, ready to be moved forward with the engineers accompanying our invasion spearhead." The supply chief promises that vital supplies will flow into France in a completely satisfactory manner. man-ner. He declares that the capture |