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Extr. France Is Invaded Extra
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The Aspermont Star
Special Invasion Edition
Asperrnontp Stonewall County Texas( Jline 6, 1944
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The long expected D-DAY and H-Hour
hit this morning, Tuesday, June (y 1944, at
10 minutes past sunrise on the Coast ot
France as a mighty Allied force of men
and equipment landed on Hitler's Europe
More than Eight thousand ships of all class
es including battle ships, cruisers, destroyers, i
landing craft and almost every thing afloat, j
No number has been placed on the number |
of men in the action. More than 11 thous-|
and air craft participated in flic acrion in* j
eluding Fortresses^ Liberators, Mitchells,
Mauraders, Hellcats, Lightnings, Mustangs, I
and all types of British planes. Complete un-
ity prevaled between all members of the al-'
lied forces. j
j Very little resistance was encountered in
the first wave, it was announced by eye wit- j
nesses. The shore batteries were quickly quiet
ed by our planes and guns aboard ships. Amer
ican Marines manned many of the secondary
guns on American battle ships and Coast
Guard vessells. The large barriers which the
Germans lud erected in the water on the
French coast "proved not to be so diffi
cult as had been expected.
Hprdes of allied air borne troops were
landed behind the enemy TTnes. They will
push forward and join forces with the beach,
head forces, and try to stop enemy artillery
which could possible hamper our further
landing forces.
Allied commanders have announced that
the enemy was completely surprised and that
tactical surprise has been achieved"
It has not been announced just where in
France the landing have been made,, but
it is more than likely than numerous beach,
heads have been established, and it will be
up to the Germans to try to figure out just
which one of these beach heads will be dev-
eloped into the real invasion force. They wilf
Vnot rush too much opposition into any area
(until they think they know where the real
push will be.
We have all been anxious to learn just
when the big drive will be. But now that
it is here a dark cloud is cast over us. There
will undoubtedly be a large casuality list.
Stonewall County has been fortunate in the
war so far in that only one man has hem
deinitely reported as lost. Just how long our
"good luck" will last we do not know.
So far the news is all good. We hope it
will continue to stay good.
For one thing, if we may draw conclusion
from the brief news we now have, the land-
ings were made without too strong enemy
resistance. If sof thousands of lives have al.
ready been preserved. This was our grea*
dread, that some thing like happened at Sa*
lemo would be repeated. We do not vet
know, but it would appear now that this ftSs
bten avoided with the first wave.
CHURCHILL TELLS CtTMMOtfS
ACTION PROCEEDING AS
PLANNED
Prime Minister Winston Churchill appear-
ed before the British House of Commons to-
day and told them than the invasion was
proceeding according as planned.
He told them that more than 4000 war
ships and several other thousand landing craft
was participating in the invasion.
He said that an almost unlimited amount
of planes, ships, men and equipment was
held in reserve to meet any eventuality.
HITLER TO HEAD ALL
GERMAN ANTI INVASION
FORCES
AIRf SEA AND LAND
INVASION AIR FORCE
SEE NO LUFTEWAFE
As multiplied thousands of our planes', all
types, light, medium and heavy boenbers, ami
fighters of all classes swept over the coast
of France,, bombing ahead of the landing
forces, and furnishing cover for them wEile
they made their landings, their no sight of
Enemy planes. Also thcr ewas very IittlĀ«5
anti- air craft fire, one correspondent stated,
who went over with a force of B-26 med---
ium bombers who made their run at the
low altitude of 1000 feet.
This does not mean by anj' chance that
the Carman Air Force will not go int0 the
air with all of its fury, but it does mean
that the enemy was caught unaware at that
particular point. They either have surprise
plans of their own, or else did not have en-
It has been announced from a Sweedish
news service that Adolph Hitler is taking ough forces in the area t0 mafcc ;t safe to
supreme command of all Anti Invasion for-J R0 up t0 meet the hordes of allied planes.
ces of the German Military might.
It is thought he will set up his office some
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PRAYER SERVICES TO BE
where in France just behind the lines.
A sign, perhaps of German inside weak- HELD AT LOCAL CHURCHES
ncss,. is the fact that the Generals in charge
of other operations have been relegated to
the back ground, and der fuercr himself
will see to things.
-Pa-
CERMANS SOUND FIRST WORD
OF INVASION FORCES
As most of the world had anticipated, the
The doors of local churches were thrown
open this morning at 4 as the news came
that our men had opened the attack "against
the enemy, where prayer and supplication
may be made in behalf of these our loved
ones who have gone into the very jaws of
death you might say,, in the interest of all
those things we hold dear, while we are here
at home in safety. Parents have been offer.
first word of the, invasion was given by the j jng continual prayPr in behalf of our fine and
Germans, who reported at 11 :35 p. m. yes- > g00{| nie.i, but this is a special prayer meet-
ing. Go to your favorite church anil help
offer prayer to the Great Prince of Peace.
If He leads our forces, the Victory will be
-|RSS-
terday that large hordes of allied paratroopers
had landed in France behind the costal ar-
ea. The force was reported to have been
approximately four times the size of the, sure
German forces that were air borne in the!
battle of Crete. This report was perhaps j
true, as allied forces announce that more! AN OTHER SCOOP FOR!
than twenty thousand of our aiv-borne troops THE STAR EDITOR
! landed in France shortly after midnight; ^ AapcrmAlt Star ig first t0 bring t0
j British time to help our beach head forces.; ^ q{ Aspcm,orn the ncws of the
! r;/rv /TTxTr 1 Invasion of alllod forccs into Hitlerite Eu-
I J IIE) CAN 1 SI OP US j rope. We bring you this little special as a
j The invasion started as a small group of I service to our readers who are anixous to
' men casually walked aboard their small well
fortified landing craft. Each man was said to
| be a walking arsenal. They had every kind
of fire power that has been invented for the
infantry man. Summing up the whole
! matter in 4 words oik Pennsylvania Sgt.
said "They Can't Stop us." Yes, this was a
i small force, but beore it was finally assem-
bled it rounded out to be the largest military
: force ever to be launched in the history of
1 the world.
STALIN SATISFIED
The German radio has announced that the
invasion was finally launched when the al.
lied commanders could appease Stalin no long,
ger. They say the allies did not want to at-
tack but were forced to do so by Russia.
learn the details of the invasion.
The alarm was sounded in Aspermont at
3:50 a. m Tuesday, Grace Hight, local tel-
ephone operator received a call from the
Abilene office that the invasion was on. She
called nightwatchman Reub Baldree and had
him to make a short blast on the fire alarm.
As soon as the alarm was sounded many peo-
ple of the town and community rushed to
their radios and started listening to the
few details that were available.
Why do we say "another scoop ?*' Well
in October 1939 we were publishing a small
paper in Terry County as the Germans
issued the first shot of this global war and
sent their troops storming into Poland. Our
paper was the first on the street with the
momentous news.
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Richards, A. E. The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 6, 1944, newspaper, June 6, 1944; Aspermont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth127193/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stonewall County Library.