Show INVASION eisenhower commands hillers Hit lers high command shuttled troops in western europe as americas fourstar four star gen dwight dwigh t D eisenhower assumed command of A allied forces and the stage was set for the big second front britaina Brit ains air chief marshal arthur tedder stood at general eis en howers side as deputy commander with britaina Brit ains adm bertram ramsay as the leader of naval forces and britaina Brit ains air marshal trafford leigh mallory in charge of all air forces As the allies supreme comma command nd buried itself in the mass of invasion detail the tensed germans reported heavy aerial bombardment of their channel fortifications and commando attacks along the french coast to test their defense As the germans awaited the grand assault said nazi marshal erwin rommel our defenses are technically correct FORTRESS EUROPE step up action bringing heavy artillery into play gen mark darks clarks fifth army blasted the nazis from strong points blocking the 75 mile road to rome while farther to the east the british clambered past the adriatic bastion of ortona won after in more ore than a week of vicious street to street fighting As U S and british troops punched their way through the nazis stiff mountain defenses in f k 19 0 C 44 germanys germanas Germ anys scharnhorst southern italy aerial and naval warfare in europe stepped up fleets of allied bombers winged their way over the english channel to pound nazi fortifications along the french coast and the RAP RAF rained another 2234 tons of explosives on battered hapless berlin following the british home fleets sinking of the ton nazi battleship scharnhorst off north norway light allied and german ge aman naval units tangled in the at atlantic antic off the french coast with aira airplanes lanes being called into play to help sink three enemy destroyers and a speedy blockade runner RUSSIA reds advance delivering trip hammer blows all a long along the mile russian front red armies surged forward again in the south as germany germanas Germ anys harassed high command shifted forces to I 1 check the big push the reds heavy blows in the south fell as german resistance stiffened in the north around quickly shifting the gravity of their attack the russ struck on a amile j mile front in the south first punch in g hard at mir then punching itta astill still harder above that railway hub at Ko resten I 1 this winters russian offensive I 1 was a real slugging match with each side in the south primarily concerned I 1 with exhausting the other |