The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-14
Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto.

the Germans in France in the past 48 hours, almost all of it in the Nor mendy sack and eastward to the Seine. Six hundred locomotives, 1000 railway cars and 1900 motor vehicles were destroyed or damaged.
 More than 1900 American heavy bombers alone participated in the bombardment yesterday, helping turn the highways of retreat into flaming roads of death The wreck ago of tanks and trucks further slowed the enemy withdrawal.
 Smoke Over Falaise
 United Press War Correspondent Richard D. McAillan reported from the front that vast clouds Of dust and smoke from burning vehicles were spouting over Faiaise this morning as the swarns of Allied aircraft resumed their assault.
 Twelve German prisoners walked in to the British lines he said. complaining that they couldn't stick it out another day"
 We got no sleep and no food" they said. Supplies get worse with all our efforts concentrated on getting forces out"
 s eerecy that cloaked the prog gress on Bradley's southern columns following the capture of Le Mans, lI2 miles southwest of Paris. last Wednesday gradually was being lifted today. but censorship still prevented full details of the amaz- ing advance from leaking out lest important military informatio nreach the Otill-confused German com mand
 United Press War Correspondent Robert Miller. who travelled with the American columns thrusting north from Le Mans. revealed in a delayed dispatch filed Saturday that the tanks and infantry had sped northwaTd Aleneon. 2s miles north of Le Mans and 22 miles south of Argentan. so rapidly the Germans had no time to blow up bridges or mine roads,
 "RaG Race"
 Miller said the general eom- mandine the advance summed up the situation with one short sens tenee: Hell! This Is nor eof q Fal race than a battiel"
 He sp0ke while sitting in his jeep lust outside Aleneon watching an amending stream of tanks and trucks roll down the highway be- tween two columns of sweating in' fantry," Miller said, "AeToss the street was a hospital which last night had housed German patients
 "Perhaps never again will it be possible to watch a victorious army push forward with such eooFdlnaT tion and such speed as this one, AS far as the eye can see there Is move. ment along the shimmeFlng paYe' ment with everything flowing north ward, unhamReFed by confusion or enemy attacks" ..
 The general told Miller that tl was just Q case of moving too fast for the Germans, They didn't be- lleye it possible goT us to cover the distances We have in such 2 short time" The general said the infantry had marched 27 miles the day be- fore "and probably will do as much today"
 Henry T, GoFFell, another United Press War Correspondent told hoy an aFmOred column he was aeeomps anylng yesterday Liberated at least 20 French towns and villages ln . "speetaeular advance
 Mep G0lng strong G0FTell said the column SUI was going strong when he left tl last night despite the efforts ef 6eFs many's best troops, including me fam0us Adolf Hitler ss Division which tn the past hours has been es' , to ribbons"
 Latest reports reaching supFems 1 headquarters suggested that ule Americans had run into stgengeI ops { position as they approaches Pelaise , with the Germans trying despegate' ly to keep open the escape sap 70 the east for thelT l2 threatened d. } Vlslans-slV aFmeFed and sls lnsap' try, ,.. the British 2nd and Canadian ass armies, were eempFesslng the osF' man sack,
 At the base of the sack, the Amer jeans gained one to three miles from MaFtaln and 6epFdeyal iA pressing close behind German FeaF gNRFaE and in some eases 0VeFTullns them, 60TFell said prisoners were stream Ing lH by the hundreds complaining Of the effectiveness 0g the AmeFls can air h0mhaFdment, Remnants 0l the Adolf Hitler and pAs Reich kS Divisions, some 0f the best ln the German army, appeared % be eaFs Fylng the bFnnt Nf the rear guard resistance, covering the WtthdEAwsl eastward, 6ATYell said,
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