7/6/1944 6.= pm. Stuart Hibberd
Satisfactory progress is the latest news from
France. At 6.30 last night 3 waves of gliders
landed troops on the Cherbourg Peninsula
and two hours later 2 more waves were dropped
and our troops seized positions on the peninsula.
The Germans say that only now their local reinforcements
are coming in action but this is propaganda.
By noon yesterday American parachutists had
captured a village 3 of 4 miles inland which
was an important position. Two small islands
off shore were also captured. The Germans say
good sized Allied forces established 3 bridgeheads.
Some heavy fighting took place on the
beaches and inland yesterday. At noon the
men in our beaches were out of the German
fire. The weather is better than yesterday and
it is not holding up operations. From dusk
to dawn our planes made 13000 sorties
and our heavy bombers were out 4 times
during the day. An enemy attack by
Juncker dive bombers on one of our beachheads
proved abortive. Out of 12 Ju's 4 were destroyed.
There is no up to date weather news from the
landing craft. It is reported that more
naval officers and men are employed in
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