7/7/1944 9.= am
In Normandy Allied aircraft yesterday made one of their
heaviest attacks on German communications.
They attacked targets over an area of 9000 square miles,
destroying 9 bridges and knocked out hundreds of
enemy vehicles. The enemy lost 33 planes and the Allies
14. American troops gained more ground around
La Haye-du-Puits but the Germans were apparently
still in possession of the town last night. At the other
end of the front there has been further fierce fighting
for the Carpiquet airfield 4 miles west of Caen.
Field Marshal von Rundstedt has been relieved
of his post as German Commander in Chief in the
West and has been replaced by Field Marshal von
Kluge. In Italy the Allied armies continue
to make steady progress. More than 500 American
heavy bombers attacked targets in Northern Italy
yesterday. The Russians have pushed forward on a
broad front to a point little more than 30 miles
from Wilna. In the Pacific American troops
have followed up their landing on Noemfoor
Island off Dutch New Guinea by taking the nearby
island of Manim. British and American
heavy bombers have kept up the assault on
German flying bomb stations on the Coast of France.
More of the bombs have been over London in the
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