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Show for guns and mortars, machine-gun machine-gun pillboxes and anti-tank positions. posi-tions. Mr. Gorrell says that the Germans Ger-mans were so confident that their defenses, based upon waves of massed fire power, would kill or main our infantry by thousands, as they lay pinned on the beaches beach-es that they installed conscript soldiers back of the defenses. The newspaper correspondent says that the German plan collapsed col-lapsed mder the pulverizing barrage bar-rage of our warships, the bombing bomb-ing of our aircraft and the splendid splen-did work of our airborne soldiers. BEACH DEFENSES PROVE POWERFUL The successful establishment of an adequate beachhead on the Cherbourg peninsula has led many Americans to conclude that the German defenses were not as strong as expected. This conclusion seems to be erroneous er-roneous and, in a measure, detracts de-tracts from the magnificent accomplishment ac-complishment of our ships, planes, and men. Henry T. Gorrell, United Press Correspondent, who inspected the Cherbourg area a week after the landing operations, says that the German fortifications "theoretically "theoretic-ally would have been capable of repelling any invasion force with tremendous casualties." He tells of hidden sites for rocket batteries, concrete aVid steel emplacements six feet thick |