Evening star., 1944-07-06
Yanks F|ankinq
La Hayes Seize
; More Towns
Whole Areas Freed By
French Underground,
Headquarters Says
BULLETIN.


nounced tonight that Marshal
von Rundstedt, commander of
German forces in the west,
had been replaced by Marshal
Won Kluge. Ill health was
given as the reason in a
broadcast dispatch purport-
edly coming from Hitler's
headquarters. No mention
was made of Marshal Rommel,
who has been in direct COM
mand in Normandy under
Won RundStedt.
MAP on Page A-2)
BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, July 6.-Three more
towns have fallen to 1t. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's American in
fantrymen f1anking La Haye du
Puts, the Germans western an
chor point in Normandy, su-
preme headquarters announced
today, and the French under
ground army has liberated whole
sections of France.
The Americans took Glatigny, 4
miles southwest of La Haye. and
Scorman, nearby, in the sector near
the west coast, while miles east of
the besieged town they captured
La Butte, advancing their lines to
the edge of the morass, the Marais
de Gorges.
Fighting continued in the streets
of La Haye where the Americans
had captured the railway station
and heavy battles ragged for the
wooded high ground to the SOUTH
east in the Forest de Mont Castro.
(The German controlled Vichy
radio asserted today that Ameri-
can troops who entered La Haye
yesterday had retired northward
after a violent German counter
attack.
"a later German broadcast
said several prisoners were taken
during counterattack after the
American penetration into La
Haye du Puts, which was cleared
again.
Bitter Fight Near Caen.
While the Supreme Command
announced that 1913 square miles
of Normandy had been liberated
an average of 43 square miles day
since the invasion-British and
Canadians in the Caen sector at the
eastern end of the battle line clung
doggedly to Carpiquet, 3 miles west
of Caen, and waged a bitter fight
for a no-man's- s-land airfleld Just to
the south.
Stressing the help being given by
French interior troops, the Supreme
Command in special communique
said these forces were engaged in
fighting on a large scale against
regular German Army units.
Areas liberated by the French
were named as the district of Ver-
cors, southwest of the Swiss border;
part of the department of Gers, be-
tween Bordeaux and Toulouse in
Southern France; the department OF
Doubs, just west of the Swiss from
tier: the department of Ain, north
west of the Swiss frontier; the de-
partment of Ardeche on the west
side of the Rhone Valley in South
ern France
This fighting is not a question
Of picking off stragglers or small
units, but of bearing the brunt Of
heavy German attacks and engag-
ing regular German Army units,
supreme headquarters explained.
"a Train Derailments.
1t added that in 10 days the
French underground had caused "a
train derailments, destroyed two
tunnels and caused wholesale de-
lays in German troop movements
including whole trainload of tanks
Several armored vehicles have
been captured and $50 Germans
killed and Is prisoners taken in one
engagement alone.
Headquarters announced that Nazi
troops were more densely packed in
defense positions in the Caen region
than on any battle-ground in this OF
the World War.
The supreme command said the
German troops there had reached q
(See INVASION, Page A-4.)
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