Zurich Herald, 1944-08-03, Page 3DANCED 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 per-
mission to dance for Allies. She's pictured posing before wrecked
German anti-aircraft gun,
GERMAN ONE-MAN 'SHARK'
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
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.
ARMY'S 45U13 -SEA SOLDIERS'
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 front 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.
THAT HAT!
Pte. H. Koebe, Winnipeg, found
himself a new head dress when
helping to clear the rubble from
war -blasted Carpicluet.
NORMANDY FACTORIES LAID WASTE
Monty's greatest -ever aerial and a: i_ilery blitz, which preceded the breaching of Rommel's line in
Normandy, laid waste this factory d.strict of Colombelles. Canadian infantrymen who followed
the searcli through the still -blazing, devastated ruins of these factories.
MINESWEEPER SUNK IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
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A few minutes after this picture was made, the USS Tide, which had beet engaged in clearing the
..English Channel of Mines, sank to the bottom. She was sunk while steaming toward the Normandy
beaches. Two ships stand by to pick up survivors.
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,
COMMANDS NAZIS ON ATLANTJC COAST
Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, right, who recently replaced
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 von
Kluge released siene he became commander of German forces on
the western front.
• STUDY IN CONCENTRATION
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 AEF in France. It bring first good
news in four years. ..
SIDEWALK CAFE, WARTIME STYLE
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.jThey are seen here drinking a toast to "a short war".
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the outlying Marianas Islands, the Bonins, Japan itself, the Carolines and the Philippine .