INVASION OF EUROPE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23970, 10 June 1943, Page 5

INVASION OF EUROPE

ALLIED AND GERMAN EXPECTATIONS EARLY OPERATIONS PREDICTED LONDON, June 8. “Decisive Allied operations are expected soon against the fortress of Europe,” says the Algiers radio. “The stepping up of air strength against Italy, Germany, and the occupied territory has brought about a rally of public opinion in favour of the Allied Nations in those countries which until JJJW have been hostile or indifferent. The second front is imminent.” A military spokesman in Berlin said that the Germans were watching for Allied blows against Belgium, northern and southern France. Italy, and the Balkans. A Swedish correspondent in Berlin quotes Dr. Kurt Pfeiffer, a military ”Pert, who says that the first attack come from the Mediterranean beSe Allies there are well drilled » n u excellently armed. Two British armies and one American, also French Tnf Ves ' are read y for ac tion. j The Official German News Agency ♦u S u ? s the Channel forts which are hsginning of the Atlantic Wall profh {JS Europe. "At several points off ne French coast anti-aircraft forts of nousands of tons of steel and concrete ai, 1 , s . ecure this no-man’s-land against vi*, tacks,” it says. "It is still a secret n l? ny these fortresses there are c On E *he French coast from the North toiL! 0 the ® ay Biscay. On the ar* v ar| ti-aircraft emplacements k.l® “Sht and heavy guns. Extensive atS 6 ds surr °un d the forts, and an Ca ,f c " would cost the enemy dear, beef th the * orts would be the first taste manv H n Pt? asa nt surprises which Geralnno * n rea diness for the enemy land ” tae wbo ' e coastline facing Engwe docide to go into a place tfir'mi » . VG sufficient forces to go . ' opo sa ] d Brigadier-General Daniel l 'Wn e American amphibious warwbo was recently apGeneral of o - Unitcd Stales Army in an ln tbc European theatre, ing noin* er V ew in London. “The landth| h °" s fo T. an Alhod invasion and sidernH^,i aCjacent have been conbeen ! wl, mcil hll arms, who have said “p e ? ia y t rai ned. stand ready,” he ty e haui* U ' Prnon t bas been assembled. c onte>Ymi.?i r J u P ei 'i° r ity and we do not hav e ?Ia ate ,osin S >t- We shall also support." a monftti er ' Gene^ al Noce added tha t s °ftenino sey5 ey ' ral ste P s taken was the That wa? u° f the . enemy by bombing wa s tho ha . n PPnm3 now. The next step The Arm? ctUa -, arr >Phibiou.s operation accordance as -' ( ■ landed, would fight in Soi he snen; a i Vlth - ts own traditions, 'laired am! B eqL ," prnent had been rew fl ne a " d , small landing craft had knew all u ar * r ‘ America and Britain *ere ready tyPeS requirod and they Ai^ A Nhnish t v a ? kS °*?.-. Shi PPin?.-Tlie off the VlnfiT ys / Enemy shipping Jand werp ' 1 u C °^ St J and bar " es in Hoi? Tuesday h v a i!r ac^ ed and dama ged n Spitfires b n Mu stangs, Typhoons, and June alrCraft iS miSS ‘