Allied Commander
General Dwight David Eisenhow¬
er became Allied commander-in¬
chief November 8, 1942, during the
African campaign. He served with
the tank corps in World War I.
Invasion of France
A Triumphal March
For Allied Armies
After many anxious months of
preparations, the invasion of conti¬
nental Europe from the west be¬
came practicable. General Eisen¬
hower gave the momentous order,
and on June 6. 1944, known in mili¬
tary terms as “D-day," the great
landing- craft began moving across
the channel from England to a
stretch of beach on the coast of
northern France, in the department
of Normandy. More than 4,000 ships
and many thousand smaller craft
plied back and forth in the choppy
waters, under the protection of 11,000
airplanes and units of the British
and American navies. Men and ma¬
teriel poured ashore in unending
streams. This landing, without port
facilities, was the greatest in his¬
tory, and was possible only because
of the newly developed American
landing craft.
Meanwhile, paratroopers had been
dropped over Caen, a strategic town
eight miles inland. Fighting broke
out at many points along a 100-mile
front, as comparatively weak Ger¬
man forces tried to halt the onrush-
ing horde of American and British
troops that kept arriving, hour after
hour. Bombing planes pounded
many points of Germany in the first
hours of the invasion, not only near
the beachheads, but far inland.
There was consternation reported in
Germany among the tired civilians,
and the Nazi high command seems
to have been successfully deceived
as to the time and place of the
landings.
Tanks Start Smash.
The nc«t day, June 7, Allied
tanks began to drive into the coun¬
try. Gains of five to seven miles
were made, as the beachhead was
deepened. Chief areas of conflict
were around Caen and Bayeux,
where more obstinate German re¬
sistance developed os reinforce¬
ments came up. Nazi counter¬
attacks, however, were successfully
repelled, and gains continued. On
June 9, American armored col¬
umns reached a point 17 miles from
Cherbourg, the large port city of
the Normandy peninsula, and one of
the major objectives of the cam¬
paign. On June 26. Cherbourg was
entered by victorious Allied troops.
The “big push’’ was accomplished
with comparatively light losses. It
was officially announced that up to
June 21, 3,082 Americans had been
killed, 13,121 wounded, and 7,059 re¬
ported missing. The British and Ca¬
nadian combined force, numbering
about half the American contingent,
lost 1,812 killed. 8,599 wounded, and
3,131 missing. German total casu¬
alties were estimated at 70,000,
which included large numbers of
prisoners.
Fan Out in Wide Sweeps.
The first week of August saw
American armored columns support¬
ed by airplanes, and closely followed
by infantry, fanning out in wide
sweeps sometimes advancing 30
miles a day. All during August sen¬
sational speed was maintained, as
German resistance broke and crum¬
bled. The enormous Allied army in
northern France seemed to advance
almost at will, limited only by the
necessity of maintaining supply lines.
Lieutenant General Patton’s armored
spearhead, -in particular, thrust
across central France at a pace that
far exceeded the Nazi blitzkrieg of
1940.
By September 1, the fifth anniver¬
sary of the war, astonishing victo¬
ries had been achieved. Paris had
been liberated; an American thrust
had reached the fortress of Verdun,
last obstacle before the German bor¬
der; another column was pushing
north toward Belgium to isolate the
rocket-bomb-launching coast. Still
other drives were advancing south¬
east toward Lyon to make a junction
with the second invasion forge mov¬
ing up from southern France; small¬
er segments smashed southwest and
northwest in what were gigantic
mopping-up activities, clearing such
remaining points of resistance as Le
Havre, Dieppe, Orleans and Tours.
In the three months between D-
day, June 6, and September 6, the
American and British armies had
invaded a heavily fortified coast,
conquered almost all of France ex¬
cept for isolated areas, and stood
ranged in force along the western
border of Germany, consolidating
for the last act.
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Chronology—
World W ar II
193!)
Sept. 1—Germany launches invasion
of Poland.
Sept. 3 — Britain and France an¬
nounce that a state of war exists
with Germany.
1940
April 9 Germany invades Norway
a nr! ark.
|J.ty ii~ : ermans repel British at¬
tempt to Invade Nazi-Nftrway.
May 10—( . n any invades the low
countries. Churchill becomes
prime minister.
June 2—Four-fifths of British troops
extricated from Dunkirk.
June 10—Italy enters the war.
June 18—Nazis occupy Paris.
June 22—French accept German’s
peace terms.
1911
April 6— Germans Invade Yugoslavia
and take command of Greek-
Italian front.
May 1—British driven out of
Greece.
May 10—Uudo'pii Hess lands in Brit¬
ain by parachute.
June 1—German paratroopers take
Crete,
June 22—Germany invades Russia.
Dec. 7—Japanese make sneak at¬
tack on Pearl Harbor, the Phil¬
ippines and Hong Kong.
Dec. 8—U. S. declares war on Axis
countries.
1912
April 18—Doolittle leads American
fliers in bombing of Tokyo and
other Japanese cities.
May G—C'orregidor surrenders.
May 9—American forces defeat Jap¬
anese fleet in the Coral sea.
July 1—British Eighth army halts
Rommel at FI Alarm-in.
Aug. 19—Commandos raid Dieppe.
Oct. 2G—Battle of Solomons starts.
Nov. 8—U. S. troops land in North
Africa.
1913
Feb. 3—Germans lose the battle of
Stalingrad.
May 12—Tunis and Bizerte fall, end¬
ing German resistance in North
Africa.
July 10—Allies invade Sicily.
July 25—Mussolini out, Badoglio be¬
coming premier.
Sept. 3—Allies land in southern It¬
aly.
Sept. 8—Italy surrenders uncondi¬
tionally.
Nov. 20—Americans invade Gilberts,
Makin and Tarawa.
Nov. 22—Roosevelt, Churchill and
Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo.
Nov. 28—Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stalin meet at Teheran.
1914
Jan. 22—Fifth army troops establish
Anzio beachhead.
Jan. 31—Americans invade Marshall
Islands.
Feb. 16—Pacific fleet attacks Truk
with heavy Japanese sea and air
losses.
Feb. 2!)—Yanks invade Admiralty
Islands, overrunning Los Negros.
Mar. 4—First All-American air raid
smashes Berlin.
Mar. 15—Allies level Cassino.
Mar. 30—Red army drives into
Romania.
Apr. 10—Reds recapture Odessa,
last major Russian city in hands
of Nazis.
Apr. 22—C. S. troops land along 150-
mile front on Dutch New Guinea.
May 8—Russians recapture Sevasto¬
pol and the Crimea.
June 4—Rome falls.
June 6—Allies begin invasion of
France.
June 15—U. S. Invades Marianas.
June 16—German robot planes at¬
tack England.
June 17—French invade Elba.
June 26 — American troops enter
Cherbourg; Russians in Vitebsk.
June 29—Yanks bomb Bucharest.
July 3—Reds take Minsk.
July 9—Caen fails to British troops.
July 19—Leghorn, Ancona fall to
Americans.
July 21—U. S. troops invade Guam.
July 30—Russians reach East Prus¬
sian territory.
Aug. 3—Rennes taken by Amer¬
icans.
Aug. 5—Americans enter Brest.
Aug. 7—Russians seize Polish Gali¬
cia oil fields.
Aug. 12—Florence freed by Allies.
Aug. 15—Allied troops invade south¬
ern France.
Aug. 22—Romania sues for peace.
Aug. 25—Paris liberated.
Jiept. 1—Allies overrun World War 1
battle fronts.
Free France Again
As head of the Free French move¬
ment, Genera] Charles de Gaulle
played an important part in the lib-
oration of his homeland.
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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, T RENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 10,
LOCAL- PERSONAL
Mrs. Mildred Chamberlain of
the U. S. Nurse Corps, in train¬
ing at Erlanger Hospital, visit¬
ed Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Geddie and
family this week in Trenton.
Pfe. William (Bill) Cline, who
was wounded in action in Ger¬
many, is here on a 30-day fur¬
lough, visiting his aunt, Mrs.
Charles Buffington. Bill was a-
warded the Purple Heart. His
many friends are glad to see
him back, and that he was not
seriously wounded.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Patterson
spent Sunday with relatives at
New England.
Pfc. Leon Buffington, of Fort
McCellan, Ala., spent the week¬
end with his wife and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Pnffington.
Mrs. Noel Cole is ill at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Harold
Howell, at New England.
Mrs. A. C. Killian is very
much improved after a serious
illness.
Mrs. Edna Mae Hickman has
been visiting relatives in Soddy,
Tenn.
Mrs. Ray Buckles is recuperat¬
ing at her home in West Tren¬
ton from an appendectomy per¬
formed recently.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Geddie of
Sulphur Springs, spent Friday
visiting J. B. Geddie and family
here.
Attorney W. A. McClure, promi¬
nent attorney, of Chattanooga,
spent Monday in Trenton.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scruggs, ;
accompanied by Mrs. Maurine
Scruggs, returned Monday from
a visit with Carl Scruggs, at
Picayune, Miss. While gone, they
visited New Orleans, and other
points of interest in Louisania
and Mississippi. j
Judge J. M. C. Townsend, of
Wildwood, was a visitor to
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from the beach, to supply advancing Allied troops. Invasion fleet in background. D-day, June 6, 1944, marked
the beginning of the final chapter of Naziism.
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Monday.
Garrett I, Gass, of Chatta¬
once a prominent resi¬
of Dade County, was the
of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Sunday.
George W. Hale, one ofLookout
prosperous citizens,
in Trenton on business Mon¬
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Forester
family, of Atlanta, spent the
with relatives in Dade
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lei up until FULL Victory
Who can Id me Americans for going half
mad with joy as Hitler’s cruel war machine
is smashed into the dust! For all who have
fought and worked and suffered grievous
loss, this hour of triumph is deserved.
But our men are still fighting and dying
out these in the Pacific. If we let down now,
we'll be letting them down!
Let's stick to our war jobs until Uncle Sam
says, “Well done—you can relate!”
but he was not known to have
had a serious affliction, and his
death comes as a shock to his
aged widow, his sole survivor,
and his large circle of friends
throughout the county. As we
go to press, funeral arrange¬
ments nave not been announc¬
ed.
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C. VV. CHADWICK
DIFS SI DDENLY
C. W. Chadwick, resident of
Rising Fawn and Dade County
for the past 40 years, died sud¬
denly at his home Wednesday
morning.
Mr. Chadwick, 78 years of age,
had been feeble for some years,
County.
Elbert Elbert Holmes Holmes is is spending spending sev- sev-
eral days with relatives in At-
Let's buy extra War Bonds — they will be
needed now, more than ever.
Let s use transportation wisely. Greyhound
would like to offer unlimited pleasure travel
right away — today — but carrying war
manpower is still its most urgent task.
\ ou may be sure that Greyhound will lead
the field with fine new equipment, new
comfort features, new carefree tours just as
soon as war requirements will permit.
But now— let's finish the job!
