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Battle of Europe,Begun on D-Day Will Be Cited as One of World's Greatest Military Undertakings
The battle of Europe, destined to go down in history as one of the greatest military undertakings with perhaps the greatest consequences at stake, was begun by the Allies on June 6, 1944. D-day, when they hurled an armada of 4,000 ships, 11,000 planes, and whole divisions of airborne troops across the English channel for the invasion of France.
Six months later Allied troops had crossed the German frontier, fought on the "sacred soil" of the Reich—something that Hitler vowed never could happen—and were at the gates of the Ruhr and inside the Saar, industrial sections necessary to Germany for her to continue the war. Germany had taken a terrific pounding from the air, fortress cities had been captured in drives that reached the Rhine and the defenses that guarded the way to Berlin.
Alled Drive spree Between two and three million men were employed in the offensive over a battle line that extended some 450 miles from the North Sea in the north, to the Swiss border in the south. In the first 28 days of the invasion more than a million Allied troops, were landed, and the movement continued with the later capture of ports in France and the Netherlands.
Allied Drive Spread Over France ...
In the first 100 days the Allied forces swept through France from the west and the south—the invasion from the south opened on Aug. 15 and eight days later Marseilles fell. Once through the German defenses in the west, the drive of the Allies spread out over France.
Early in July the Ninth American army engineered a breakthrough in the Normandy peninsula at St. Lo and Caen, opening the way for an Allied drive on the land and in the air. The main Allied offense was directed eastward to Paris, but there was also a curving advance
The American First army launched one spearhead for Luxemburg and the German westwall; a second spearhead struck more to the north toward Aachen and Duesseldorf, on the way to Cologne and the war industrialized Ruhr. American, British and Canadian armored columns advanced through crumbling Nazi defenses across the Somme and Marne battlefields of World War I. Allies Take Four Large Forts
The advance of the first army into Germany—the first invasion of the western Reich in strength in this war or the last—was made 98 days after the Atlantic Wall had been breached. The Siegfried line was cracked at Uebach, by the U. S. first army. Aachen, the first German city to be captured in this war, was seized on Oct. 21.
to the Sine. Canadian and British armies veered to the north to free Belgium and repeat the operation for the Netherlands.
After 50 months of German occupation, Paris was freed in August after four days of fighting in which thousands of unarmed citizens and 50,000 armed men routed the Germans out of the city.
The advance against Paris was made by the Third army which continued its drive toward the Rhine and later joined the American Seventh and French First moving up from the Mediterranean.
Fight on World War I Battlefields
Four large ports, essential to the Allies for the transfer of troops and equipment, were taken during the summer and fall drives—Brest, a former U-boat base; Calais on the Channel coast was a prize of the Canadians who also gathered in Le-Havre, another channel port; and Antwerp in Holland was captured by the British.
A coordinated offensive by six Ai-
lled armies to break up the German
Map Conference
Field Marshal Montgomery (left) and General Eisenhower study a map on the west front.
field armies was begun in mid-November with a drive eastward into Germany, France, and the Netherlands. On Nov. 20 the American Seventh and French First armies entered the great fortress city of Belfort on the south, and on the following day, Metz, another fortress city, was captured.
Highlights in Life Of Montgomery
Montgomery took command of the Eighth army while it was fighting Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa. He whipped the United Nations' forces into a cohesive fight unit and the result was a major Allied success sending Rommel's Korps fleeing across the desert.
In the minds of many persons he is associated with a black beret or and Australian slouch hat which he always wears.
he was on the Dunkerque beach on May 13, 1940.
The French forces continued their drive to take Saverne, and the Ninth army drove for the Roer river, encountering heavy German resistance before the Colonne plain. The U.S. Third Army struck for Saarbruecken and Sarreguemines where they forced crossings on the Saar and opened the way to ran advance into the Reich basin. The third army smashed into Saarlautern and fought into the Siegfried line at two places. Germans Open Counter-offensive
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, the stern disciplinarian and deeply religious commander of the British Eighth army, was born in 1887.
In the western Reich—the home of the Rubr—the Germans stood on the Fhine almost 100 miles within' the frontier.
He is a widower. In 1927 he married Betty Carver who died in 1937. He has one son:
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, MAY 8, 1945
Why, aggressive, incisive in speech, he has become famous for his self-confidence, absolute calmness and self-control.
The German Army opened a counter-offensive on the western front on Dec. 17 on a 50-60 mile front between Monschau and Trier on the borders of Belgium and Luxemburg. The attack, directed against the southern flank of the American First army, was the first heavy blow struck by the Nazis since the invasion of France. The German counter-offensive was aimed to relieve the Allied pressure against the Ruhr and Saar industrial areas so vital to the German military machine.
Allies Check Nazi Gains
The weather, keeping the American Air forces on the ground, aided the Germans' offensive. Their advance penetrated a distance of 40 miles into the American lines when the weather cleared. When the U.S. air force again went into action, the German gains were slowed to a mile or less a day. At the same time the
In the World War I he received the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de guerre while serving as a captain in France.
With his men of the Third division
Third Army opened attacks against the Germans on the Luxemburg frontier.
Early in January the counteroffensive was checked by the Allied forces.
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