Communiqué No. 24
Allied forces have pushed deeper into NORMANDY. Villages east and west of TILLY-SUR-SEULLES have been freed of the enemy.
Advancing two miles south of ISIGNY, our troops have reached the VIRE ET TAUTE Canal.
In the CHERBOURG peninsula, SAINT-SAUVEUR-LE-VICOMTE has been liberated.
Air operations were sharply curtailed from dawn to midday, when bad whether obscured much of the battle area. Nevertheless, fighter bombers and rocket-firing fighters attacked railway yards, motor convoys and bridges leading to the CHERBOURG peninsula. A convoy of horse-drawn vehicles was destroyed at LA TRAVERSERIE and enemy machine gun nests at FOLLIGNY were strafed. No enemy fighters were encountered during these operations.
Shortly after noon, medium forces of heavy bombers, with fighter escort, attacked seven enemy airfields in southern NORMANDY. Three enemy aircraft were destroyed. Two of our bombers and one fighter are missing.
Other fighters destroyed a railroad bridge across the SOMME Canal.
Early this morning, coastal aircraft attacked enemy shipping in the Channel.