and have made good progress towards the road and
rail centre of La Haye-du-Puits. They were last reported
to be less than 2 miles away.
In Italy 5th Army troops have reached a point
16 miles from the West Coast port of Leghorn in
spite of stubborn German opposition.
In The Pacific American carrier based planes
have attacked harbour works in an island
group within 800 miles of Tokyo. They sank or
beached 3 Japanese destroyers, sank 2 other vessels
and destroyed 25 Japanese planes.
RAF bombers were over occupied territory
during the night. More flying bombs have come over S. England.
5/7/1944 1.= pm. J. Macleod.
The Americans captured high ground 2 miles NW of La Haye.
Carpiquet lies 4 miles west of Caen. Possession of the airfield
there is still in dispute. The Germans last night brought up
some 30 to 40 tanks and the battle was fought on the airfield.
This morning we are still in the buildings and hangars
on the field. Yesterday there was more air activity due to
improvement in the weather. Last night our planes
attacked a.o. Orleans. 14 are missing. Mosquitoes made
a record number of attacks and in general we had the
best .......[?] since D-day. In Russian the bulge between
Polotsk and Minsk is within 10 miles of the Latvian
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