Evening star., 1944-06-09

At least 1000 Nazi prisoners have
been taken. A field dispatch today
said Americans had captured 600,
including some Russians and Poles.
Berlin broadcasts reported street
fighting In Caen and an Allied push
toward Carentan, 40 miles to the
west and 20 from Cherbourg.
With 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
ashore and personally leading his
American forces, headquarters dis
closed that the Allied beachhead
strength included the Canadian Sd
Division. This was the fourth Al
lied division ofiicially disclosed as on
the beachhead The others are the
9Th British airborne, the 1st Amer
lean and the 50th (Northumbrian)
British Divisions.
More Bad Weather.
Brig. Gen. Paul l.. williams of
Detroit was disclosed as the COM
mander of the 9th Air Force Troop
Carrier Command who helped plan
and direct D-day air-borne opera
tions to the beachhead, which Ger
man reports pictured as more than
10 miles deep at places.
While guns roared along the
front, Allied warships roamed up
and down the coast as rowing ar
tillery spotting German pockets and
strongpoints.
Deteriorating weather again fell
on the Channel, but headquarters
said the wind was in a more ia
vorable direction for unloading
streams of supplies and reinforce
ments.
Field dispatches disclosed that
the British and Canadian landings
on D-day were in the region of
Berniers-sur -Mer, at the mouth of
the Orne River and north of Caen.
Berniers is in Allied hands.
Front dispatches said the battle
was developing into a race for sup
plies, and 1T looks as if the Allies
are winning"
The Germans rolled up more tanks
dropped parachute troops and sent
some supplies charging to the front
behind horses.
Ten German divisions are engaged
Allied headquarters said, while the
Germans said up to 20 Allied divi-
sions had been thrown in.
The Germans said the Allies had
penetrated miles below and miles
west of fallen Bayeux, and said AL
lied beachheads had been strength
ened. The Nazi high command
claimed gains east of the Orne River
One front dispatch said Americans
now hold beachhead miles deep
on a broad scale, with smaller pene-
trations several miles farther inland
United States parachute troops cap
tured one town. it said, and in
fantrymen drove the Nazis from an
other. Much of the fighting was
waged on a tree-to-tree and ditch
to-ditch basis, it added.
"Most Involved Battle"
Other front reports said 1T Is be-
coming the most involved battle
with local retreats and advances
having a very definite effect on the
general plans both of our COM
manders and the enemy. Both are
Seizing every chance to drive in a
wedge when there is the slightest
faltering."
LANDINGS have continued on all
beaches, and by-passed strong points
OF enemy resistance are being
steadily reduced" this morning S
Allied communique said.
For the first time since the dawn
OF D-day there was no official men
ton OF air-borne operations last
night.
BY German account, tank battles
ragged all the way from Caen to the
Carentan area.
Transocean said in Berlin
broadcast that Allied liberatinp
forces had made their deepest pen
etration in the area of captured
Bayeux.
Transocean said the Allied drive
from Bayeux was in the direction OF
st. Lo.
st. Lo, Ste. Mere Eglise and Va
lognes and all on the central lin.
of communications of the PENN.
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