NOT YET PITCHED BATTLE
Cherbourg Offensive
(Received June 24, 1.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. A pitched battle for Cherbourg is expected to begin soon, it is learned at the Allied supreme headquarters. The Germans concentrated inside Cherbourg’s outer and inner defences and putting up strong resistance particularly around the Maupertes airfield south-west of St. Pierre Eglise and also in a wood further to south-west of it and south-east of Cherbourg. Though forward American units are in sight of the sea on the eastern side of the peninsula there is no report that any hve reched it. They are nearest to the sea about two miles' west-north-west of St. Pierre Eglise. The situation on the western side of the peninsula is obscure, but advance elements of the Americans are contacting the enemy and probing for weak points. They are astride a road running southeast of Beaumont Hague. More than 6000 sorties were flown by the Allies in the 24 hours up to 5 a.m. today.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8
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164NOT YET PITCHED BATTLE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 229, 24 June 1944, Page 8
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