CONTINENTAL EDITION TRIPES (1 Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Vol. 1 No. 28 Printed "Somewhere in France" Friday, August 4. 1944 FALL OF RENNES CAPS 34-MILE U.S. DRIVE On Other Fronts Army Bares Part of D-Day Landing Story Yanks Reach 1st, 29th Divs. Broke from the First Division. The Believe Reds landing cost the 116th more than 16th, 116th Regiments, Strong Nazi Defenses 800 casualties, while the 16th lost Spearheads, Suffered at least one-third of its assault East of Carentan strength. Heavy Losses Dinan on Main Have Entered Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau The First and 29th Divisions WASHINGTON. Aug. 3— wers assigned to storm the beach tillery and rifle-propelled rockets. America was told today some of just east of Carentan, which A breach was blown in the the details of the Woody D-Day bristled with concrete pillboxes; barbed wire and the 16th poured Road to Brest landings as the War Depart machine guns and sniper neste. through but at terrible cost. Lt. East Prussia ment paid official tribute to two moreover, an entire German di- Gen. Omar N. Bradley i>aid: U S infantry regiments which vision was in the same area on "Individually and collectively American armored forces yes- defied withering and costly en- a manenver. member.1- of the 16th Regiment terday kept up the fastest move- There were strong indications The 16th was heading for shore turned threatened catastrophe ment of the war in France' by a emy fire to drive through one 34-mile drive southwest from las' night that Soviet armies section of Hitler's Atlantic Wall near Coleville-sur-Mer when it into glorious victory for the were at last fighting on German was swamped by violent seas and American Army." Fci'torson to capture Renn;s, and establish a beachhead whi."h the original capital of Brittany soil in pre-war East Prussia, for two days remained the Al hurled from assault craft toward Infantrymen of the 116th went with armored forces of Gen shore.- The entire regiment be- and strategic center for the con- lies' principal gateway to ashore near Ville-sur-Mer at a quest of the entire Brittany Ivan Chernyakhovsky pressing Frsnce. came the target for point-blank beach heavily fortified with theiT attack near tonus only fire from the enemy cliff posi- peninsula, and a westward surge The two spearheading regi- barbed wire, concrete walls and of 2£ miles to Dinan, on the three miles from the eastern ments were Virginia's 116th In- tions. land mines. The 116th neutrali- boundary of the Reich province main joad to the great port of fantry from the 29th Division Slowly tha regiments regrouped. zed cliff positions, forged through Brest Moscow censors early in the day and New York's 16th Infantry The men answered German ar- mines and routed the enemy. permitted correspondents t o British and American troops ©peculate that the frontier near the center of the front, in would be passed by nightfall. the area of Vire and Villers- Pianes Povmg Way for Break-Through Bocage advanced against Soon afterward German Over- NEW FINN GOVT. stronger opposition as the Ger- seas News Agency reported the mans tried to delay an eastward Red Army had broken through onslaught and possibly a major Wehrmacht defenses at Au- MAY SEEK PtACE Created Havoc Behind Enemy Lines retreat to the Seme. gustvo at the southern end of the front below the Su-ivalki Tri- i By Andy Kooney Germans at Paris were fever- While Bulgaria and Rumania ishly hurrying preparations for angle, eight miles from the pre- were reported seeking ways out Stars and Stripes Stafl Writer war East, Prussian boundary. defense of the city and mining of the war in the wake of Tur- The weight and close support of aii power made possible the great roads inside it. accoroing to two Irtoide Warsaw the long-sup- key's bieak with Germany, the break-through and the advance which followed in the last week, Maj. French people who arrived near pressed Polish underground Stockholm press yesterday pre- Gen. E. R. (Pete) Quesada commanding general of Ninth Fighter Vire from Paris two days ago came into the open, engaged the dicted a speedy Finnish peace Command, said yesterday. ,' and who saw en route what thev German garrison to bitter street move by Field Marsdal Manner - "If the air fore hadn't destroyed airfields, supply dumps, bridges described as a near catastrophe lighting ane seized parts of the neim's new cabinet, which is ex ' and rail lines, and if they hadn't in the German army's retreat capital Berlin admitted German pected t< be ready for delibera- kept German traffic off the roads from the American break- tutposts southeast of the oaprtal tions tomorrow. during the daytime, this break- through had to be withdrawn after the A United Press dispatch from through couldn't have occurred," Russians launched "numerous If Reds Reach Gen. Quesada said. 'The Ger- Stimson Hails Successes Stockholm said representatives mans had left a shell of resis- In Washington. Secretary 01 attacks from the southeast, east of the Finnish peace party al and northeast.' Berlin First —P tance instead of the real defen- War Henry L Stimson said tha ready had contacted • Russian sive line they might have had." advance in Normandy in the last . A new Soviet thrust timed at circles there. Southern Germany was disclosed Indicating -the extent of dam- line days was the most satisfy- A German counter-measure to WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, (AP) age inflicted by the air forces, ing accomplishment since D- by a German radio spokesman Finland's action was indicated —Washington i s speculating who revealed that 55 miles north Ninth Fighter Command disclosed Day. even overshadowing the in a Finnish report that Ger- over what will happen if the that in the seven days of the of- swift envelopment and liberation Of the Lwow-Cracow railway a Russians get to Berlin first. Russian column was striking due man warships have been sighted fensive, July 25 to 31, its aircraft of Cherbourg. off the«. strategically - important "What will happen if the first alone averaged more than 1,000 Gen Montgomeiy, described as west fic-m Baranov, a town on major surrender of the Wehr- the east bank of the Vistula 100 Aaland Islands, which he across plane sorties a day and destroyed obviously in good spirits at his the entrance of the Gulf of macht is to the Red Army?" 2,287 vehicles, 384 caterpillar ve- Nbimandy headquarters yester- Miles upstream from Deblin and people are asking. "Will it about 100 airmiles south of War- Bothnia between Finland and hicles (including tanks), 12 5 day, declared "we have taken a Sweden, end that Nazi occupa- make any difference in the horse-drawn vehicles, and 14 lo- lot of prisoners and the Allied saw Bitter fighting was report- terms to which the Germans ed in Latvia, where the Reds, tion was imminent comotives; cut 46 rail lines and total is now approaching 100.000 The Germans might possibly will be subjected? And are the 33 road and rail bridges; and quite apart from those we have having reached the Baltic west Russians and Anglo-Americans of Riga, began an effort to split try to evacuate to Finland the attacked 85 rail junctions, 38 written off We are hitting the 300,000 troops cut off in Estonia unanimous in their ideas about troor concentrations, 71 gun em- Hun a good crack" the trapped divisions in Latvia what to do with the Germans." placements and 12 supply and and Estonia. and Latvia. -<UP reported. Tht As TJ. S. tank spearheads raced 100,000 Germans in northern The answer of informed of- ammunition dumps. deeper into Brittany a German Finland and recent reinforce ficials today was that it will Gen Quesada stressed the fact correspondent at Field Marshal 8th Army Tightens ments in the Karelian Isthmus make no difference at all. Nei- it was'the total over-all might von Kluges headquarters ad presented another problem to ther side will make a separate of Allied air power, both strate- mitted the situation was criti- Florence Arc the Nazis. peace they say. But both the gic and tactical, that "created a cal for German forces there. Eighth Army troops threat- Bulgarian conversations with Russians and the western condition which was unbearable The American thrust westward ened yesterday to encircle Plor the Russians and. through neu- powers are empowered to ac- in the German^ lines." to Dinan threatened to isolate ence as an Indian unit crossed tral countries, with Britain and cept Germany's surrender on "The air force juct scrambled the second largest French port, the Pesa River to the west on the U. S., were reported in a behalf of all the United things behind the German lines. Brest, 115 miles west of Dinan, a wide front and the arc around broadcast from Ankara, Nations. An army can't stand that con- while the drive southwestward to the southern half, less than five stant kind of disruption. Rennes threatened to cut off the milps from the city, was tight- "The Eighth Fighter Command German U-boat pens at Lorient, ened. Strong German resistance has thrown .German supply 88 miles southwest of Rennes* from dominating hill positions Eight FWs Gang Up on Piper Cub; routes out of' order way into Ger- and at St. Nazaire, 60 miles continued. many. They have been intruding south of Rennes. right around Berlin. We'd have Brest a Major Port South Africans spanned the been in a hell of a hole if it Greve to capture the town of Result: 2 Enemy-Aircraft Destroyed hadn't been for strategic air Brest, the great debarkation Strsda in their march on Im- power.' point for the AEF in the first pruneta, which the enemy holds Special to The Stars and Stripes I knew :S0s were swarming all World War, has a la»ger cargo in strength.