Show Americans Battle Baffle To To- Encircle French Center CenterS S 8 S H A E F London July 6 UP UP UP-Adolf Adolf Hitler announced Thursday night that he had removed removed re re- re- re moved Marshal Karl von Rund- Rund from th the lie supreme c command corn com m- m mand of the breached Atlantic wall defenses S S H A E F F. F London London July 6 6 UP American A troops s swarming w a 2 r m I n g around b passed by-passed La Haye du i Puits captured outlying villages s on each side of ot it Thursday and were locked in bitter blUer fighting between between between be be- tween the town and Its rail ralI station station sta sta station tion yards to the north Supreme me h headquarters e a d q u a art r t e r a announced an announced an- an that the Germans Germans' w were re resisting strongly along the American American Amer Amer- ican jean offensive front in Normandy and there was no indication of any scale large stale e en enemy n em y withdrawal However slow but sure progress was reported in most sectors German forces counterattacked briskly along the Periers Carentan-Periers road and drove American units out of ot the village of Culot Culo 4 miles mUes southwest of Carentan which h they had captured a few hours earlier Gain on Heights The h heaviest fighting was Inthe Inthe in inthe the La Haye sector Edging down past the transport town in western western west west- em ern Normandy U. U S So forces captured cap cap- tuned lured Glatigny 4 miles to the west near near-by and Labutte La- La butted butte 6 miles mUes east of La Haye Despite stiff opposition the Americans also gained ground on the Mt Castre Castro heights overlooking La Haye while the battle for the town was going on below the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road st station tion While the battle of Normandy went wenton on headquarters arters anno announced that French patriots had liberated several sectors of interior France overriding violent reaction by German Ger Ger German man troops The French forces of th interior I were reported to have freed the I district of the Gers department department de de- de and parts of the Doubs and Ala AIn departments in southern France A front fron dispatch said the Amer Afner- Americans leans were encircling La Haye and m on Pa Page e Two Column Fin Fl Americans Battle Baffle To Circle La Haye Continued from Page One artillery was pounding the German German German Ger Ger- man positions Inside the town town which had proved formidable e enough ough to push back shock troops who fought Into Int the streets Wed Wed- The Mt Castre 3 miles mUes southeast of La Haye and dominating dominating dominating domi domi- feature of the entire La LaHa LaHa LaHa Ha y e Carentan triangle appeared to tg be within the grasp of ofU U. U S. S forces late Thursday while the column pushing down the west coast completed a passing by-passing movement beyond La Haye Zigzag Front Among the gains was one of a amile amile amile mile below St. St Jores Jares which netted I the village of La Butte The 1st army was battering forward forward forward for for- ward all along the zigzag mile 27 front rom the west coast to Carentan Carentan Car Car- en tan and its several individual attacks were blossoming into an offensive of considerable scope Headquarters announced that Inthe in inthe inthe the first 30 days of the Normandy campaign the allies had liberated 1313 square miles of France A field dispatch reported a swaying battle for the La Haye rail station The Americans had been in and out of the rail yards 3 times since Wednesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon the report filed flied at 1230 p. p m. m said and for the moment It was in G German hands The same account said American Ameri Amen can forces driving in against La LaHaye LaHaye Haye from the southwest were within 1 mile of the town U United P Pre Press r e s a s Correspondent Henry T. T Gorrell reported from the vicinity of ot La Haye that the battle for the nazi-held nazi bastion of th the west Normandy front raged violently throughout the night and by midmorning still sUll had not taken a decisive turn Bloody Battle Earlier advices said La Haye had been passed by-passed on both sides and Gorrell's report that it was being encircled indicated that the spearheads had turned in for a junction below the town which I would trap its German garrison Lt Gen Omar N. N Bradleys Bradley's United States First army was reported reported re reported re- re ported storming southward from 16 newly captured villages in n some of the bloodiest fighting of the Normandy campaign surpassing surpassing surpassing sur sur- passing in several respects evenI even I that on the approaches to Cher Cher- bourg More than American Marauder Marauder Marauder Ma Ma- medium and Havoc light bombers swarmed to the support of the allied armies in France Thursday The Ninth air force planes struck in formations of 6 to 36 at the 5 main rail lines Inea radiating from the battle zone They also aimed a point pin-point blow at two bridges brIdges' within the city of Caen |