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Show ENEMY losses GREAT, SAYS GEN. EISENHOWER General Dwight D. Eisenhower reports that the "enemy's battle losses have been far greater than ours." In the invasion of France and the subsequent campaign, the Germans have lost, he reports, 8 pieces of artillery to our one, and we have "knocked out twice as many tanks as we have lost." The Supreme Allied Commander Command-er was writing Maj-Gen. Levin H. Campbell Jr., Army Chief of Ordnance, Ord-nance, to report a "general superiority super-iority in quality and quantity" of ordnance and to say that the Army Ar-my in Europe needs more weapons and ammunition, as well as men, to finish the job. , i 5nto nnt uenerai mseiuiuwci that the Germans were defeated in Normandy by fire power and the teamwork of American soldiers sol-diers "and their rifles, mortars, machine-guns, artillery in their tanks and tank-destroyers." He adds that the enemy retreated 500 miles, leaving behind much equipment equip-ment in order to reach temporary security in his fixed defenses." We call attention to the details mentioned by General Eisenhower because the American people should appreciate the tremendous victory scored by the Allied armies in the campaign which began last June. Not only was an invasion launched against strong shore defenses, de-fenses, but the Nazi armies, fighting fight-ing desperately to .prevent the establishment es-tablishment of a large base of operations, op-erations, were cut to pieces and compelled to flee for hundreds of miles, losing hundreds of thous- ands of prisoners. |