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Port Perry Star (1907-), 20 Jul 1944, p. 7

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AS IS Sant pe Toa lt is PAPERWORK THE SNIPER PLAYS HIS PART Although fires rage in the smoke- . " filled street behind him, this Ameri a) can paratroop officer calmly per- id ches on fender of wrecked car and 72 makes out report to his superiors 3 A on action in French town. io 44g The man with the rifle is stil a main cog in battle and Canadian soldiers, many of them expest 0 comparatively flat terrain -- the lines of the Bug and Wista rivers, as indicated on map above, Arrows marksmen like this sniper drawing a bead on the enemy from his post in a shell-ruined house, took "Hitler's fast-fleeing armies in Poland are approaching the last natural defense barriers offered by the show general direction of Red army drives, a north-central one skirting the Pripet Marshes and a south- * wl ta central one, converging in a giant pincers on Warsaw, thence on toward Berlin, °. + a heavy toll of Nazi defenders of Europe on invasion day. h SEZ WHO? oo J 0 " GENUINE FRENCH HOSPITALITY ~ 3 ) {6h wr . PONIES eto 3 2 A idaho ny § : % : i SE SERS 4 i a AT ANY MEAL ANYTIME | : 2 Busy housewives appreciate \ Kellogg's ready-to-eat cereals "i more and more every day. b. Kellogg's are a satisfying : dish anytime -- for breakfast, Suh lunch, odd-hour snacks," i Ready in 30 seconds. ve lime 4 goon (evra TY i boy. Sgt. Theodore Herman, of Ravenna, N, Y., chuckles as, with his Hats : ak a ORY nd : SA on i trench _krife, he rips one of Herr Goébbels' propaganda posters off Pre-war cigars and wine, hidden since the German occupation, is shared with Canadians by 'these two C | 2 oY the wall of a Cherbourg building. The poster is a map of Italy, liberated French villagers. Cpl. R. J. Simmons, Toronto, Cpl. R, W. Freypons, Drumheller, Alta, p YR showing British and American forces in the south symbolized by a Sgt. L. A. Plewman, Bowden, Alta, and Cpl. G. L. Worsdall, Toronto, sample genuine French ; . 2 snail, with the slogan: "It's a Long Way to Rome." : hospitality in Normandy. , : - ) y 2 : Fo - i ALLIED CASUALTIES GET QUICK CARE % : rr A got EE 4 : 11 AF 1g Characteristic of the Army's con- [i J \ pe, cern for casualties are these pho- bo "BR tos. Above shows a French beach- 8 head field hospital, set up by Army UY Medical Corps men who landed : : 3 i with fighters on D-Day. Hospital - ) { 3 a 'soon had many patients, who were ' & RA evacuated by ne and air as soon as i tk possible. Not losing a minute in' LA P RO V_I NCE DE . their fight to save lives, corpsmen i = TOURIST AND 5 i RS in photo at right give blood plasma ~ "PUBLICITY BUREAU > A dy transfusion to wounded American } 200 Bay St, Toronto. Elgin 2111, Ne being evactiated on speeding jeep CANADA'S OLD-WORLD VACATIO NL AND and Québec City, : during bitter fighting on Saipan. » tN 2 he TAN . Foy

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