The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-20

sun of Dieppe, the Allied troops started arriving on the south coast at dusk yesterday and poured out of their invasion boats through the night.
 They were taken to army busses and trucks for the trip to their bases after the wounded had been sorted out and taken to the field hospitals.
 Their casualties in dead and wounded were high, but there was no indication that they had been higher, if as high, as the Allied command had reckoned in an oper- ation of this ferocious sort.
 The United States Rangers, the pick of the American forces in the European theater, every man a vol unteer, had shown their fighting prowess.
 The Canadians after more than two years of intensive training in shock tactics had had their first trial in force against whom they will throw their full strength when the real invasion starts.
 The tough British commandos had played star part in what was their eighth raid on the enemy held coast.
 The fighting French had fought on their own soil for the first time since they waded out from the beach at Dunkirk to board British rescue ships.
 Twenty-three United States Army flying fortresses had made probably by far the heaviest attack eYer con- centrated against a single air base when, in cooperation with the AL lied raiding troops. they bombed Abbeville yesterday.
 It was at Abbeville, 35 miles up the coast from Dieppe, that the Germans broke through to the coast after Sedan in 1940.
 It is TOW possibly the most heavily defended point on the in- vasion coast and has been a grave yard for allied planes.
 Direct bomb hits, made possible by the best bomb sights in the world, were scored on the airdrome runWayS, plane dispersal areas, bar racks and headquarters buildings.
 Bright fighter pilots expressed as- tonishment at the accuracy of the fortress bombardiers as they saw bomb after bomb plummet to its target.
 Any doubt that in yesterdays wild air battle, which at its climax cov- cred an area 125 miles long from the Isle of Wight to Boulogne and 60 miles deep, the Germans took heavy blow was ended when the air and home security ministries in their joint communique today re- ported that not single German plane had come over the British Isles during the night.
 Not since August 3, 16 days ago, had the Germans failed to make their nightly vengeance raids.
 America had played an important ,Hart in the Dieppe battle. Aside from the contribution of the Ran ger detachment, only a small part of the Allies forces engaged, and the bombing of Abbeville and of Rouen base for Dieppe, Monday pilots of the American Eagle squad rons serving with the Royal Air Force had taken part in the Chan mel air battle, the RAF had put into action new P-51 North American Mustang fighter planes and Amer ican made General Grant tanks were among those landed on the Dieppe shore.
 Describes Victory
 R. c. A. F. Overseas Headquar- ters, England, Aug. 20 - U.P) - Flight Officer Hollis H. Hills of Los Angeles, one of the Allied Pilots who bagged Germany's crack Focke- Wulf-190 fighter planes during yes- terday's action over the Channel and Dieppe, described his victory at the base here today.
 Hills, who enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, was flying a Mustang (North American P-5D fighter plane.
 We were about eight miles north of Dieppe when two FW- 1905 jumped our formation from above" Hills said. T warned the pilot in front of me, but apparently his radio was damaged for he maneuv- cred on as planned. I took eYasive action and an enemy aircraft shot past me.
 T gave him burst from my guns and he turned off and came back toward me as I gave him another. Smoke poured out of his plane and he crashed.
 Two others continued to chase me, one staying high. Altogether I was attacked four times but my plane was hardly damaged"
 Other American victors in the swirling dogfights included Pilot Ofdcer H. J. Murphy. St. Clair. Me, flying spitfare, who shot down an FW-190 and a MeSserschmitt 109.
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