Stringer: Hitler’s West Wall mass of wreckage
By William J. Stringer
With U.S. forces in Normandy, France (UP) – (June 8, delayed)
Hitler’s supposedly invincible West Wall tonight is a sad spectacle of broken guns and pillboxes and ripped “secret defenses” along the beachfront of at least 15 miles.
When I toured mile after mile of beaches this afternoon, I saw scores of twisted masses of steel which were once powerful German guns and miles of blackened rubble which were flamethrowers and artillery blockhouses. I saw thousands of torn pieces of iron which had been secret underwater obstacles.
Hitler’s West Wall is truly a mass of wreckage. No cyclone could have done as thorough a job as Allied naval guns, artillery and demolitions.