GETTING READY
INVASION STAFF
NAZI "ATLANTIC RAMPARTS" (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 9. General Montgomery is hustling to get his group of British armies ready for the invasion of western Europe, says Mr. Morley Richards, the "Daily Express" military writer. He is handpicking his own officers, rearranging the commands, and tightening up controls.
Invasion headquarters in London awaits the arrival of the supreme commander, General Eisenhower, whose task it is to interlock all the invasion fleets, armies, and air for,ces. Field-Marshal Rommel is reported to be in France, directing anti-invasion manoeuvres along the coast. Berlin says that 7700 heavy guns have been E laced along the "Atlantic ramparts" 'om the most northern parts of Norway to the Spanish border and 3000 anti-aircraft guns between the Atlantic and the North Sea. From Narvik to the Pyrenees.is more than 2000 miles. If the German gun figure is correct it would suggest many soft spots that can be attacked.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5
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