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Show THE LE1II SUN, LEHI. UTAH -WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Allied Forces Push Forward After Success in Landings Along 100 -Mile Coastal Area Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE! When opinion! are expressed In these columns, thej srs those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) 1 - - t' ! ' ", - . ' I 1 1 , -r' - , ; f ' j.'- .V V I r . -ftr-r ' 'C t - f - r . i V'. v . Vl, I i" :,',V -'.ft''? -i' . - ' ElK-itcil 4.V I , i,i frriiii. i tWnfiil inm in isss.niilliiih.n On Way Allied tailors stand at alert in early morning hours as invasion fleet moves on French coast. SECOND FRONT: Allies Drive Inland June 6, 1944, marked historic "D" day and, in the hours that followed, the battle against Germany's desperate des-perate defenders developed into a grim fight to the finish. Borne across the English channel to French soil by a mighty armada, ar-mada, thousands of U. S. and British Brit-ish soldiers first poured onto the beaches between Cherbourg and Le Havre, 80 miles from Britain, while thousands of other paratroopers and specialists landed behind German lines to accomplish particular missions. mis-sions. As the Allies established footholds along a 100-mile shoreline and mechanized equipment and other supplies were hurriedly unloaded on the beaches, Doughboys and Tommies Tom-mies pressed inland to encounter Germany's emergency reserves rushing up to prevent sizable penetrations pene-trations of their front and combat the spreading paratroopers. Heaviest of the early fighting developed de-veloped near the mouth of the Seine river below the big French port of Le Havre, with Allied mechanized units fighting for control of the coastal stretch immediately to the south, and swarms of paratroopers battling German detachments near the large industrial city of Rouen, farther to the east In Air No less than 10,000 tons of explosives explo-sives were dumped on Nazi defense positions by swarms of Allied bombers bomb-ers preparatory to the landings, and more than 1,000 air transports dropped paratroopers and glider-borne glider-borne specialists over the French countryside on specific missions. Extending across 200 miles of sky, the massed Allied aerial fleets flew above a thick overcast, which hindered hin-dered the German Luftwaffe's counter-measures. Among the first Allied troops to land at strategic points were the paratroopers and specialists, special-ists, and the enemy's early counteraction counter-action was against these units. Besides bombing German defenses and transporting troops to vital areas, the U. S. and British air- force, 11,000 planes strong, also bus led itself guarding the convoys and the beachheads, and striking back at the Luftwaffe, showing its first signs of life in the blazing battle tones. On Sea While the huge Allied aerial fleet took command of the air, an equally huge naval armada of 4,000 vessels took over dominion of the sea, pouring pour-ing deadly fire from belching guns into the enemy's boasted coastal defenses. Taking part in the thunderous naval na-val bombardment of the French littoral, lit-toral, under the over-all command of British Adm. Bertram Ramsay, were many U. S. units. Including the battleships Texas and Arkansas and the cruisers Augusta and Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloo-sa. In the early fighting, U. S. losses were reported at only two destroyers and a landing ship. Among the vessels that bore troops and supplies ashore were 36-foot LCVPs carrying vehicles and men; 200-foot LCIs bearing infantry; 200-foot 200-foot LCTs stacked with tanks, and 300-foot LSTs transporting everything every-thing from Jeeps to bulky road-builders. Tumbling from craft were naval personnel to direct landings, tend wounded, repair or blow up disabled dis-abled craft clogging the coastal approaches ap-proaches and establish communications communica-tions with ships at sea. RUSSIA: Attack Aivaited While Moscow received word of the opening of the "second front" with jubilation, the world kept one eye cocked to the east for the opening open-ing of a large scale Russian attack to synchronize with operations in France. Indeed, the Germans sought to unbalance un-balance the big Russian offensive by attacking in northeastern Rumania, Ruma-nia, where Berlin expected the weight of the Reds' drive to fall. In attacking in that region, the Germans Ger-mans claimed to overrun high ground, giving them command of the lower land where the Russians Rus-sians reportedly massed large forces for their smash. Although the Germans expected the Russian drive to center to the north of the Carpathians where they have thrown a deep spearhead into Nazi positions in old Poland, action also was anticipated farther to the north, where the enemy held a long front which bulged far behind the Reds' rear. Battle also loomed in the Baltic region, where the Russian airforce attacked laden German transports bringing in supplies to that front. Shove Off UNDERGROUND: Put to Test With France once more Europe's bloody battleground, her distressed people found themselves tossed between be-tween the appeal of Gen. Charles de Gaulle to rise against the Germans in the wake of Allied operations and the plea of Marshall Petain to remain re-main in the service of the Nazis. With the strength of France's vaunted and storied underground movement facing a crucial test. General de Gaulle told Frenchmen . . . whoever and wherever they may be, the simple, sacred duty is to fight with all means, at their disposal." dis-posal." However, he urged caution to avoid detection and imprisonment, declaring "anything is better than to be put out of action without fighting.". fight-ing.". Imploring Frenchmen to refrain from action which would bring bloody reprisals, Marshal Petain declared: "The circumstances of battle may compel the German army to take special measures in the battle area. Accept this necessity." neces-sity." Further, he called upon all officials, railroad men and workers to stay at their posts ". . . in order to keep the life of the nation. . . ." ,W V" "r ; i i ! , ? ... 4 3 "It's the Thing!" Doughboy, exclaim at they take positions in landing craft in British port before ailing; into invasion area. ITALY: Nazis Retreat With Germany unable to furnish any more troops for the fighting in Italy and the Allies swinging the full weight of their mailed fist in western Europe, Nazi Field Marshal Mar-shal Kesselring continued to withdraw with-draw his forces to the waist of the peninsula, where they could hole up behind the last of the Apennine peaks without being threatened by landings to their rear. As the enemy fled northward, Allied Al-lied medium bombers ranged far ahead, blasting bridges and rail fa cilities, while fighter-bombers poured a withering fire into the retreating columns themselves, leaving behind a trail of burning vehicles and aban doned equipment. Despite the fact that Kesselring managed to extricate his troops from the Allied trap set by the British 8th army attacking from the south and the- U. S. 5th attacking the enemy rear from the west, the Nazis suffered heavy losses in ab sorbing the full shock of the first charge and in covering their gen eral retreat Allied Chief a" ' t. '4 iK J S : B 1 it ffrrj-SYI In vasion II ighligh ts COAST GUARD: Units of the U. S. coast guard assisted in landing operations, op-erations, and marines manned the secondary guns on battleships and cruisers. TRAFFIC CONGESTION': "There are so many planes over there (the French coastal area) that you have to put your hand out when you want to turn." commented Capt. Thomas Montang of West Bend, Iowa, a Thunderbolt flight leader. . FOUR YEARS AGO: On June 6. 1940, the French were making a des perate stand trying to absorb Ger man tank thrusts toward Paris, but had to give up 13 more miles. The British had just completed the evacuation of their forces at Dun kirk. Prime Minister Churchill de clared that Britons would fight on "until in God's good time the new world with all its power and might set forth to the liberation of the old." GEN. DWIGIIT D. EISENHOWER j Soldier-diplomat, the V. S.'$ four-star general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, as supreme su-preme commander of the Allied inv& sion, pitted himself against Germany's icy, 69-year-old Junker, Field Marshal Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt, for the biggest battle in world history. Texas-born, Kansas-educated, 53-year-old General Eisenhower, long known as an armored-force specialist in the U. S. army, gained his first renown through the successful conquest of North Africa, when his diplomatic dealings deal-ings with former Vichy collaborationists collaboration-ists led to the agreement on occupation of the French colonies. lypically frussian, Von Kundstedt is considered one of Germany's military geniuses, the man who successfully directed di-rected the Nazis' early drive into the Russian Ukraine and then took over command of Hitler's western invasion defenses. From the start, Von Rundstedt Rund-stedt was a supporter of the Nazi cause. PRE-INVASION: Battle Plans Loud though their boasting might have been, Germany's generals are not putting all of their hopes into the celebrated "Atlantic Wall." Recognizing Rec-ognizing the impossibility of adequately ade-quately defending a long coast line, the Nazis have concentrated large reserves behind it, to be shifted to endangered areas. Although Germany's military spokesmen stressed that the high command Intended to go onto the offensive to combat Allied opera tions, every preparation reportedly has been made in the event their counterattacks are blunted by the invading forces and they are pushed back. To meet this contingency, the Germans Ger-mans reputedly erected concrete and steel artillery and machine-gun machine-gun fortifications running many miles inland from the invasion coast with the object of making any Allied advance slow and costly. Behind these field fortifications, stands France's once-mighty Magi-not Magi-not line, which the Nazis have converted con-verted into a German defense system, sys-tem, and Germany's own famed Siegfried line, or west wall. Road Cleared Preliminary to the Allied invasion of the continent U. S. and British bombers conducted an unrelenting aerial bombardment of German defenses de-fenses and communication lines along the channel coast and of Nazi industries supplying the wehrmacht The attack upon German industry was two-fold: first, it was designed to draw up as many Nazi aircraft as possible into the sky for battle, and, second, to knock out the enemy's en-emy's airplane production and thus reduce the number of replacements of losses. Besides pounding the Germans channel defenses against invasion, U. S. and British bombers also worked on the railroad system, over which the Nazi command could shuttle shut-tle troops to areas most endangered by Allied landings. 0 MARKET RISES: On the first news of the invasion prices of grains declined as much as IVi cents a bushel, but soon rallied, and the day closed with net gains of one or two cents. Traders believe the future price trends will depend on the speed with which European countries coun-tries are freed from Nazi domination. domina-tion. It is expected that North America will supply most of the wheat meat and other foods needed by people of the liberated nations, at least in the early stages of the invasion. JVeto Candid Camera Shots of the Quints: (Following Their Tenth Birthday) In spite of the invasion of their realm by the five in Argentina, the Dionnes are still the only identical Quints In the world. And they ARE identica'.; outside their own immediate imme-diate family there is practically no one who can tell them apart Right to the day he died, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the physician who brought them into the world, couldn't pick them. He could recognize Marie, but the other four all looked alike to him. They have always dressed in different colors to make identification identifi-cation easier, but they knew the doctor doc-tor didn't recognize them otherwise, and they loved to switch dresses and fool him. Even though they have been living liv-ing normally with their family for the past two years, the Quints still act as a unit as against everyone else. They are normal, in that they quarrel, but these quarrels are very seldom among themselves. Marie has the biggest fan mail. She is also the charmer when visitors vis-itors come. It's unconscious with her, and this annoys Cecile, who thinks herself the personality kid. She tries too hard. Emilie is the comedienne and a great mimic. The others look to her to give impersonations of visitors as soon as they've left, and it's uncanny un-canny to see how she picks up gestures ges-tures and peculiarities for her performance. per-formance. Cecile is very observant of vsitors' clothes and criticizes them with all the confidence' in the world. She is the one of the five that tends to be a bit "catty." Yvonne has most influence with the others, and if there is a differ ence of opinion, they do as she says. Annette is the competitive one, gets upset if the others beat her. She is not a good loser. Marie, who has always been the slowest and weakest, weak-est, makes up for these deficiencies by being the daredevil of the bunch. Many think the "Sixth Quint" is best looking of the group she is Pauline eleven months older than they, but just about the same size. She is in sharp contrast to their dark beauty, for she is a blonde with fair hair, fair skin and dark eyes. Of all the family she is closest clos-est to them and because she is such an unusually lovely child, sometimes some-times takes the spotlight away from them. They have all but adopted her into the lodge. Of their brothers and sisters, only the three oldest show any signs of regarding the Quints as "different." This is because they, Ernest Rose and Therese, were old enough to be affected by the early quarrels among the pressure groups that surrounded the Quints until the last couple of years. Mr. and Mrs. Dionne do their level best to keep the five from being be-ing treated as different At the age of ten, not one of them has a cavity in a tooth. Dentists say this is due to scientific diet plus the fact they have always brushed their teeth. A couple of them may need orthodontic treatmentr-Ce-cile in particular. She is very conscious con-scious that her front teeth protrude a bit and it bothers her no end. The Quints' great ambition is to see New York. They have already traveled to Toronto and to Superior, Wis. New York is their next goaL Travel bothers them not at all; they are great troupers. But Mr. and Mrs. Dionne hate it They get upset by excitement and the crowds and meeting strangers, and come back exhausted, so they refuse to take the Quints away from home unless it is for some patriotic reason like a Victory Bond rally. Doctors for a time were a bit worried wor-ried because the five were persistently persist-ently overweight Then they decided decid-ed this was because their bony structure is heavier than normal. This, the medics think, is the result of the heavy doses of cod-liver oil they were given to combat the rick-eta rick-eta they had at birth they have taken tak-en cod-liver oil every day of their ten years. Besides giving the Quints religious teaching. Bishop Leo Nelligaa, their Chaplain, is head Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Canadian armed forces. His outstanding- I brought promotions until today he .holds a unique rank in Canada he J is an Admiral of the Navy, a General Gen-eral in the Army, and a Marshal of me Air Force. The Quints DO speak English and with a delightful accent They know over 400 words. Their conversation. , al English has been retarded purely Because their mother still doesn't understand it and so it is spoken but seldom in the home. No, the Quintuplets haven't lost their looks or charm, as you often hear tea It just appears that way in photographs because they all developed de-veloped a self-conscious shyness so that when photos are taken, thej Just "freeze up." Nazi One-Man Submarine and Pilot vwyni" wneMnan v spiswn : " x j r"IV f 1 , A- 4 I " ' r r v if A k ' - . ? '- ' i ' I I f ' ctiveJ Hi . . u i- hirJi landed on Peter Beach, Anzlo beachhead area, Italy, u ...ir.A"'r,Crih. .ub Si. let. tatt. U.-ped.. .h. .the, U O. W, tmKr Ji. -J' Z v , tornedo submarine. He bad been to servlc. only six months, Servlct ffs :ently.t jment claries, to defe I measui lor ma :es e?ua SiaUy 3 iony but M re bed as 3e the ! reat Bi csion at inforr the Am offers I : than same i a face S ID lli of the e reas lis hav repare or. lective nment h le men, many i SI blroom I ' sJt Admiral limitz wins nurse&nuc uuiiiest i : Jf 4L , f I 4 ! - , K '$ t t V, v ' f j, yen S j-H sAwW JswsU"!" " hun, f " Pw ' i closet ' " 'I 1110111 " icrowde .... , . . - . is imp The Admiral wins again. In a double match at a recent picnic held for the fleet, the team heaefctaue m Admiral C. W. Nimitz, commander in chief. U. S. Pacific fleet and the Pacific ocean areas, wefedicts, e horseshoe match. While Admiral Nimitz gets set for one of his ringers, Earl R. Lavender, BM U navy, of Los Angeles, Calif., awaits his turn. In addition to the horseshoe contest, ball games, swim: races, boxing, wrestling and other sporting events were included during the picnic. These events are whenever possible, but under present fighting conditions fa the Pacific it is seldom possible for the M wbje 10 lana ana enjoy tnemseives. Most of their entertainment is carried on aboard ship. British Celebrate Victories in Italy ( 4k: An.t ill jH ZJzVr I' v Jki IT f An Impromptu celebration, Including shows slnelm, a, i Short acts, was held by the troops making np the Brfi SS after the capture of the long-besieged citadM r r, ghth army the big Allied offensive. The celebration tL ' Cassu, at toe start of the strong point. celebration took place among the ruins of Students Study in Outdoor Classes ; . I I m " i -i - 4 Compulsory militarw . attending any university ta Canada 7. T?" ot aD m students many of the young men are ,at trne in American coHeges ranous col cges. Animal onf n. receiving training Columbia attend outdoor class. M 4t tte .versity 0f British GI Entertainmff rid. f 'gier I its sour has a ti ucatmg t roan din ich will ftial, i t t Ml irst si !em is letter Is ai youi it befo ted, ai and prgani: schex 'eachi any camj the li K itse this p' Ss of k been Iizing of gii io witl ;ed se 1 helpi euten. se, ha back act he haven h but 1 t-raa.jg.." I, im mart' Marlene Dietrich and Ita entertain Fifth army ' j op mobUe army radio. Famots fc m pinnings of La Dietrich pand ( pletely covered by regulM mm "" ii will Lehman Repor H ab any x -lition: ! zeDS I ftA s?na I STT - I- s aire; " ' ' Vs , bras 4, ; ' f " ble A,tl. tb, -fri : , i!coit f I ybei ore i Flumb .. . aftf walking on crutw- uac ing his leg in Cairo, EgJF lte nej Lehman, administrator e to b tation. is shown at the ""fwpow as he reported to the Pre" his trip to North Afcic. |