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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 n3AVANNIiiW...:: by t vl�.,. �� ,pr ......: '' i)... ...., �: x ^ti`a5s41 4y'�' ''. >@, s \Y� 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". GUAM --ANOTHER 'STEPPINGSTONE' FOR BOMBERS i:i::; MANcHORIA .•••••-`i r� 70'77 . ate. Bq.. o Sb i fll1 lll/11 1 �la: ll -%�lR11t 1 irlj;;7 : 1�11r ,1irJma +qi"r.; Jl1!!A(ni Map alii5ve Allows bonther-distauces from Guam to such strategically important Jap -held areas as the outlying Marianas Islands, the Bonins, Japan itself, the Carolines and the Philippine .