Evening star., 1944-06-16
Americans Register
Three-MiIe Advance
West Of Corentun
MAP on Page A-2.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD.
QUARTERS, June 16.-Lt. Gen.
Omar N. Bradley's American
troops, ramming home another
blow to cut of Cherbourg, have
advanced to within 21a miles
east of st. Sauveur, a junction
controlling two of the three
roads leading to the port, Allied
headquarters announced today.
The Americans marked up a gain
of 21s to 8 miles west of Carentan
after having previously reached
Reigneyille, three miles to the
northeast of st. Sauveur.
Plugging ahead on 10-mile front
and rapping out repeated gains de-
spite stubborn resistance, the Amer
leans were now within II miles Of
the Cherbourg Peninsula,s west
coast beaches. Their spearhead was
about II miles below the big port.
While Gen. Bradley's Yanks still
fought changing battle with Ger
mans in the streets of Montebourg.
IA miles southeast of Cherbourg on
the Allied right flank, the British
were engaged in stiff tank battles
with German troops in force 2
miles south of Caumont. This Is
about 20 miles inland, the deepest
Allied penetration.
Other Tank Battles Rage.
Tank battles still ragged also
around Caen and Tilly-sur -Seulles
on the Allied left flank.
Meanwhile, headquarters reported
the worst weather over the battle
fields since D-day with 20-mile-
an-hour northwest wind blowing
onto the beaches-the only place
the Allies now hold for the REIN
forcement and supply OF their in
vasion armies.
Despite the weather. however, the
United States battleships Texas and
Nevada and cruiser Augusta were
reported arching their shells deep
inland to support the troops driving
across the peninsula.
"A few miles south OF the Amer.
lean speafhead pointed at st.
Sauveur was another column push
ing toward La Haye du Puts, q road
junction controlling all the remain
ing roads leading into Cherbourg.
The Americans were last reported
about miles from this objective.
A late dispatch from Gen. Eisen-
hower's advanced command post
said it was estimated 100000 Ger
man troops had been thrown
against the Normandy beachhead.
This dispatch said four German
divisions had been badly mauled in
battle, including the 709th, 7l1th
and 352d.
Nazis Rush in Reserves.
Alive to the vital necessity Of
holding st. Sauveur and lie Haye
du Puts, the Germans rushed re-
serves into the battle and vigorous,
fluid fighting was in progress.
A German communiQue said the
Nazis drove the Allies back southeast
and southwest of Carentan, but adj
mitted Allied gains west and north
of Ste. Mere Eglise. 1t claimed, also,
that wedge had been driven into
the Allied bridgehead east of the
Orne River.
West of newly captured Quine-
vile on the extreme right wing Of
the 100-mile beachhead front, Amer
ican forces advanced mile or more
to reach the Senope River.
Furious armored fighting ragged in
the Tilly-sur-Seulles sector, while
farther east the battle of Caen set
tied into trench warfare with the
British and Canadians holding on
tenaciously. The nearest approach
to a line was held around Troarn,
at the extreme left flank of the
bridgehead.
For the first time since the battle
of the beachhead started, conserva-
tive German reports from the sectors
where fighting was taking place
jibed generally with announcements
of the Allied supreme command.
Generals in Front Line.
Field dispatches said mobile fight
ing in the spearheaIs of the Ameri-
can sector found generals in the
front line with their troops, tossing
hand grenades and firing rifles side
by side with privates.
American columns pushing for
ward sometimes were cut of and
had to fight their way back into
contact with the main forces.
Below Cherbourg, Montebourg had
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