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The Colborne Express (Colborne Ontario), 3 Aug 1944, p. 6

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THE COLBORNE EXPh IJORNE.ONT., AUGUST 3, 1944 DANCED FOR NAZIS Ginette, French dancing girl who, with her troupe, was brought from Paris to perform for Germans on Cherbourg peninsula, was left stranded when Nazis fled the area. She and girls now seek permission to dance for Allies. She's pictured posing before wrecked German anti-aircraft gun. GERMAN ONE-MAN 'SHARK' ARMY'S 'SUB-SEA SOLDIERS' COMMANDS NAZIS ON ATLANTIC COAST Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, right, who recently replaced Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt as commander of the Nazi Atlantic CCoast forces, discussion strategy with a fellow officer, somewhere along the Channel Coast. This is the first picture of von Kluge released sicne he became commander of German forces on STUDY IN CONCENTRATION U. S. Army diving unit, believed to be the only one in France, is kept busy clearing rivers and canals of mines and underwater obstructions. Unit works from an LCVP (landing craft, vehicle and personnel). In background, diver's tender helps diver don his helmet before going down to inspect canal bed a few miles behind front. Photo, above, first of its kind released for publication, shows the U. S. Navy's hitherto secret super-troopships. The ships, built at the U. S. Steel's Federal Shipyards, Kearny, N. J., are fast, carry three types of guns, and are without portholes, 106 separate ventilating systems providing constant flow of fresh air. Note cruiser bow. Pte. H. Koebe, Winnipeg, found himself a new head dress whe* helping to clear the rubble from war-blasted Carpiquet. NORMANDY FACTORIES LAID WASTE ailing a switchboard system for U. S. First Army headquarters kin Normandy, a sergeant gets to work on tangled maze of wire outside switchboard room. This couple listens intently to liberation news in square of Beaumont, France. Program comes from public address care of Psychological Warfare Division of AEF in France. It brings first good news in four years. SIDEWALK CAFE, WARTIME STYLE In a rubble-littered street of La Haye du Puits, France, three imaginative Allies rig up their own version of the famous Parisian sidewalk cafe.|They are seen here drinking a toast to "a short war". GUAM--ANOTHER 'STEPPINGSTONE* FOR BOMBERS

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