CBS D-Day0700

At both ends of this road of landings are two very important ports. On the eastern side is Lara, which is one of the most important commercial ports of France, from where most of the ships used to go to America.

On the other side is Sherbou, a great military port, which was also used as commercial port. Between these two important harbors, a series of small ports, such as Grand Kong, Burambes, and Truville can be very useful at the beginning of an invasion.

Besides that, small ships can go up to the canal to come. It is now too early to try to guess what the Allied Command's objectives might be, but the landing along the Normandy coast would offer two possibilities.

First, the larva coast is the nearest point to Paris. If the penetration was successful, it would lead the Allied forces to all the capital of France, not more than 120 miles away from the by the St. Valley.

This would have a tremendous military and psychological effect. The other possibility in the western part of the landing zone would be to attack towards Avrash and cut the norm and deepen instantly completely. This would liberate an important area, which would be very useful for further landings of the Allies in France and perhaps lead

to the invasion of the Brittany Peninsula. In case of heavy German counter-attack, the Allies would then have the rather short defence line from France to come. Anyway, according to the latest journal reports, heavy fighting is now taking place in the car area.

If this is true, the Allied troops fighting there are most proudly paratroops. The intention would be to cut both the road and railway between Paris and Cherbourg by occupying the city of Cork, a city of now almost 100,000 population.