The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-19
Uses Massed Tank
Formations in Effort to
Seal O:fBreaches at Caen
Guam Shore
Areas Being
Shelled
CBy the Associated Press

Livorno (Leghorn), Italy's third
largest seaport.
The troops Of the Fifth Army
drove into the port after forcing
the Germans out in vide pincer
movement.
Marshal Rommei threw massed
armored formations into the tank
battle south and southeast OF Caen
today in a frantic effort 10 seal or
the breaches torn In German de-
feuses by the British and Cana.
dians. A field dispatch said Allied
armored forces had smashed ahead
at least ave miles. reaching Cagny
on the road TO Paris 100 miles 10
the east.
on four other frontS-the east
and south land offensives, the aeri'
al war against the Reich ITSELF
and the underground In France
the Germans absorbed furnishing
blows.
The Allies mounted a major Of
fensive on the western tront-l04O
blitz warfare in reverse--exactly
four years after Hitler predicted
To the Reichstag that Britain would
be destroyed.
Crack Defenses
Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Montgom-
cry, whose forces cracked the Caen
defenses yesterday, estimated that
l56, 900 Germans had been written
on"-killed, wounded. or captured
go far in the Normany cam
paIgn. lie declared that the Al
lies would have no difiiculty In de-
feating the Germans In France.
1T. Gen. Omar n. Bradley
Doughboys, who captured ST. Eo
yesterday, mopped up the last remn-
ants OF the enemy in that sector
and cut the highway to Periers' an
other German citadel TO the west.
Position Serious
I On the eastern front, the German
position was serious. Berlin radio
commentators admitted. Marshal
Koney's i25-mlle- wide break-througn
! that rolled up three-day gains OF .
miles between Tarnopol and kowel
was aimed at no less than pocket
/ ing the whole OF the German army
( in the south" one Berlin broadcast
said. Konev's forces already were
less than 10 miles from the Polish
| border as drawn under the 1923
partition. To the north. Gen. Nere'
mento's forces had driven 20 miles
inside Lhtvia.
The Allies struck deeper into tho
outposts OF the Germans Gothic
/ line in northern Italy. Polish troo.
OF the Eighth ARMY captured the
port OF Ancona on the Adriatic TAX
ing more than 1000 prisoners and
much booty. American Fifth Army
troops won positions three miles
/ from the center OF the great port
OF Livorno on the opposite side OF
tn peninsula.
Drop Bloekbusters
In a followup to yesterdays rec
ord daylight offensive that support
/ ed the Caen offensive, the Raj
last night pounded two railroad
/ centers in eastern France. two syn
/ thetic oil plants in the Ruhr and
I robot plane ramps on the French
coast. Mosquitoes dropped block
/ busters on Berlin again.
On the underground front In
France, a border dispatch from
Spain said French partisans have
directed their energies 10 destroy
ing the Germans fuel supplies.
adding 10 the destruction caused
by Allied bombers.
A captured German general was
quoted by Moscow newspapers as
! blaming the German debacle in
/ White Russia on the talentless
command OF Hitler" The Fuehrer
was said to have hred his marshals
| when they told him he was wrong
in ordering ground held at a heavy
| toll in lives and prisoners.
Speed Destruction
L. s. battle ships moved in close
/ Sunday TO speed the reduction OF
| Guam as a strong Japanese base
in the western Pacific approaches
to Tokyo.
On the 18th consecutive day OF
air and warship attack on this
biggest island in the Marianas
group, which also includes conquer
ed Saipan. the big rifles Of Ameri-
cas- new battlewagons fired from
/ close range on defenses which
might hinder landing attempts.
Adm. Chester Nimitz reported
yesterday the Sunday lombard
ment failed 10 arouse answering
ire from the enemy. Destroyers
let go at ack-ack guns firing on
planes spotting targets for the bat
/ tleships
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men
steadily whitfield away japanese
sea strength by sinking or dam
aging four more cargo vessels in
/ the Southwest Pacific. The Japs
haze been slipping troop-laden yes
sells, ammunition and fuel into the
Halmahera area lately, suggesting
enemy concern Macarthur may
soon move against this island
guarding the Philippines. Halma-
hera lies northwest OF New Guinea,
most OF which the Allies control.
Macarthur announced today that
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