Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-06

General Ike Eisenhower signals D-DaN
Rome to Allied armies in Italy and marked the Sec
ond phase of the master plan to smash Nazi Ger
many into unconditional surrender, possibly this
year. The third and final phase will be Red army
offensive from the east.
Eisenhower personally broadcast to the peoples
of occupied Europe message that the hour OF your
liberation is approaching He called on organized
resistance groups to follow his previous instructions,
but said the remainder of the people should continue
their passive resistance until give you the signal
10 rise up and strike the enemy
He ordered his armed forces into battle with an
order of the day pledging that they would bring
about the destruction of the German machine,
the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed
peoples of Europe and security for ourselves in
free world"
Your task will not be an easy one" Eisenhower
said your enemy is we'll trained, we'll equipped
and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But
this is the year 1914. Much has happened since the
Nazi triumps of 194O41 we will accept nothing
less than full victory
German news agency dispatches said the Allies
landed by sea and air along the north coast OF the
Normandy peninsula between Cherbourg and lie
Havre the latter only 10 miles northwest of Paris,
o threaten 'the most important arfields nhe Nor
PENINSULA
German coastal batteries engaged six heavy
hips and 20 destrOyers lying off lie Havre and the
Normandy coast, DNB said, as well as numerous
anding craft.
The German Transocean agency said the
'er of the fighting appeared to be in the area Oh
aen 80 miles southwest of lie Havre and IL miles
inland.
Here, German troops are involved in sharp
lighting with Anglo American formations landing
rom te air and sea-, TransOcean said About IL IL
miles southwest of LIE Havre, the Anglo Americans
andcd ar-hornc troops simultaneously with sea
)Orne forces in the coastal strip between the Ornc
md Wire estuaries.'
Air-bOrne forces also landed in strength at the
mouth of the Seine Transocean said. LIE Havre, on
he north shore of abe Seine estuary and one OF the
most important Allied landing points in tie last war,
was said to be under naval bOmbardment. DNB SAID
strong cruiser and destroyer formations were Oper
ating near lie Havre.
A considerable part of at least one air-bOrnc
force wiped out and the British first paratrO0p
division was among units which could be considered
badly mauled," DNB reported.
In area east of the Orne, German defense
Orces deceived at first by the dropping OF
dummies while real landing was made elsewhere,
The agency acknowledged. 1t said numerous Brit
sh and American prisoners had been taken.
DNB told of ceaseIess air bOmbardmentS by
strong Allied air forces in the Wire estuary area some
b miles southeast of CherbOurg. Several batteShps
also said to be sheing the coast to cover land
ngs from 30 to 40 boats.
Strong formations of Allied bombers attacked
The Calais and Dunkirk areas some 30 miles across
the channel from southeast England, but no landing
was attempted there Immediately, DNB said
Watchers nthe English coast said the air Of
fensive against the invasion belt had risen to new
pitch of intensity. Daylight bOmbers roared out in
great strength following Raj night assaults on an
unprecedented scale.
Paving the way for the assault, American and
British bombers dropped more than $4,000 tons of
explosives the French invasion coast in the last
four days and nights Other formations had cut at
least temporarily enemy railway lines and highways
to a depth OF more than 100 miles from the French
coast