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Port Perry Star (1907-), 3 Aug 1944, p. 3

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" DANCED FOR NAZIS Ph 0; #0 Se nan pwr wre Site 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 per- mission to dance for Allies. She's pictured posing before wrecked German anti-aircraft gun. } . ARMY'S 'SUB-SEA SOLDIERS' a U. S. Army diving unit, believed to be the only one in France, is kept AL 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. } PULLING STRINGS Installing a switchboard system for U. S. First Army headquarters in Normandy, a sergeant gets to work on tangled maze of wire out- side switchboard room. THAT HAT! cry A German one-man torpedo is pictured as, like a monstrous shark, it speeds toward its objective. Actual torpedo-is under water. "Driver" of the missile can be seen through transparent turret. FRONT LINE LINER . z Photo, above, first of its kind released for publication, . shows the A : J BEET U.S. Navy's hitherto secret super-troopships.. The ships, built at the Pte. H. Koebe, Winnipeg, found A U. S. Steel's 'Federal Shipyards, Kearny, N: ]J., are fast, carry three himself- a new head dress when x types of guns, and are.without portholes," 108 separate ventilating - helping to clear the rubble - from a! : ~~ gystems providing' constant flow of fresh air. Note. cruiser bow.' war-blasted Carpiquet. ~~ NORMANDY FACTORIES LAID WASTE Monty's greatest-ever aerial and artillery blitz, which preceded the breaching of Rommel's line in i : Normandy, laid waste this factory district™ of Colombelles, Canadian infantrymen who followed the search through the still-blazing, devastated ruins of these factories. : MINESWEEPER SUNK IN ENGLISH CHANNEL >] A tow minutes after this picture was made, the USS Tide; which had been engaged in clearing the English Channel of mines, sank to: the bottorn, She was sunk while steaming toward the Normandy beaches. Two ships stand by to pick up survivors. ' y Rn 'HOCKEY STAR NOW IN NORMANDY - - Es f.4 2 Try Ee A platoon of Canadian infantrymen, in command of Lieut. Terry Reardon, famous hockey player of Winnipeg (shown here) cleans up a road in Carpiquet, after Canadians drove out the Nazi in a bitter struggle for the airport. Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, right, who recently replaced We Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt as commander of the Nazi At- lantic CCoast forces, discussion strategy with a fellow officer, some- where along the Channel Coast. This is the first picture of vom Kluge released sicne he became commander of German forces on the western front. STUDY IN CON a pe This couple listens intently to liberation news in square of Beau- mont, France. Program comes from public address care of Psy- chological Warfare Division of AEX in France. It brings first good news in four years. -------- A Caan ATI > Poa EN BM vy Ar a as og AE LoS » SIDEWALK CAFE, WAR TIME STYLE ER oh od a poy 2 8 84 TH $ . In a rubble-littered street of La Haye: du Puits, France, three im- aginative Allies rig up their own version of the famous Parisian 'sidewalk cafe./They are seen here drinking a toast to "a short war", NAA ERT ante + Yr 2 SEN <w. ~ ge yA vo -l- GEO is Le + h 4 ox oo 13% i 3 4 a LTE NT » Ae iH) 2 "~ Rr JUST PRETENDING £4 There's nothing like to help a person through dog days, Hollywoodite - Andrea™-King be- lieves, When she's hot from posing under klieg lights, she dons best beach duds and goes to studio beach set, She claims she gets as much benefit from makebelieve as from day of real beaching. imagination. GUAM--ANOTHER 'STEPPINGSTONE' FOR BOMBERS Ae "i wa SU x J LEER y F< Pt. =] Ritidian =] --~ No wy HEAT I Epos 3 Sel on! 7% = ST An a ra o> Ee rt ach = hh. -- Se art nt a 1 » SR CL TE, do Tlie 4 ow »" = FY) % £) eT i i { FT ey - AA Map above shows bomber-distances from Guam to such strategically important Jap-held the outlying Marianas Islands, the Bonins, Japan itself, the Carolines and the Philippines, arcas as

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