12/6/1944 1.- pm. by member of News Department
(News reader been delayed)
The guns of 5 big warships are helping on the
Cherbourg Peninsula. German counterattacks
southwest of Montebourg have been
broken up. German mobile batteries in the
Cherbourg Peninsula are under heavy fire of
our warships. The railway Carentan - Bayeux
has been cut near Tilly is our deepest
penetration so far. There is no news about the
tank battle around Caen. We can now
afford to exploit local successes now the
consolidation of our foothold is drawing to
an end. 4 railway centres were pounded
last night when we made a concentrated
bombing attack. Our Mosquitoes went deep
into France last night flying 20 feet above
the ground. Germans tried to get reinforcements
across the Seine by ferries which were also
attacked. On account of better weather more
sorties were flown this morning than all
day yesterday. Our Thunderbolt going out at
dawn this morning to dive bomb were
attacked by some 50 enemy fighters. Yesterday
we lost 24 planes. The biggest success were
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