FRANCE REMEMBERS
Received Pnday 7.55 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. France has not forgotten the | TJnited States Third Army's dash across France in 1944 after the Avranches breakthrough and m gratitude, says the Daily Mail's Paris correspondent, they have de cided to call the route General Pat ton took, "Liherty Way" (Voie de la Liberte). It starts from St. Mere Eglise in the Cherbourg Peninsula and goes through St. Lo, Avranches, Le Mans, Chartres, Fontainebleau, Rheims and Verdun to Metz. Later it •will be continued through Luxemburg and Belgitun. Every kilometre will be marked by a specially designed stone. The first was officially inaugurated at Metz this week.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 December 1946, Page 5
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