last 24 hours. Many of them were destroyed but
damage and casualties have been reported.
Mr. Churchill has announced that up to 6 am
yesterday 2754 have been launched from the French
coast. Total casualties up to that time were 2752
killed and about 8000 injured. The King and Queen
and Princess Elisabeth have made a tour of RAF
and American airfields in Britain.
General de Gaulle will confer with President
Roosevelt in Washington this weekend.
7/7/1944 6.= pm. Stuart Hibberd.
In Normandy the Americans launched a new attack early
this morning west of the river Vire between Carentan and
St. Lô. The attacks started at 4.30 this morning 7 miles S.E. of
Carentan in the direction of St. Jean and the Americans
came over the Vire by boats. The Vire is about 100 feet
wide. The Germans between La Haye-du-Puits and St. Lô
are now being attacked from 3 sides. The attack was
opened up by the heaviest artillery barrage of the whole
Normandy campaign. The weather cleared up this
morning and the attack made good progress.
We twice entered the town of La Haye-du-Puits and were
twice driven from it again. But we are now again fighting
in the streets and the town is burning. On the rest of the
Normandy front it was quiet as yesterday at least up to 3
o'clock this afternoon. At Carpiquet airfield the Canadians
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