WORLD ASTONISHED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 10 May 1945, Page 5

WORLD ASTONISHED

ACHIEVEMENTS OF ALLIES

(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. In a victory Order of the Day to the men and women of the Allied Expeditionary Force, General Eisenhower says: "The crusade on which we embarked early in the summer of 1944 has reached a glorious conclusion. It is my special privilege to commend you all for your valiant performance of duty. Though these words are feeble, they come from the bottom of my heart which is overflowing with pride in your loyal .service and admiration for you as warriors.

"Your accomplishments at sea, in the air, on the ground and in ihe field of supply have astonished the

world

''Even before the final week of the war you had put 5,000,000 of the enemy out of the war. You have taken in your stride military tasks so difficult as to be classed by many doubters as impossible. You have confused, defeated and destroyed your savagely fighting foe. On the road to vjctory 'you have endured every discomfort and privation, and surmounted every obstacle that ingenuity and desperation could throw in your path. "You did not pause until our Jront was firmly joined with the great Red Army coming from the east, and other Allied forces coming from the south. Full victory in Europe has been attained Working and fighting together in a single, indestructible partnership, you have achieved perfection in the unification of air, ground and naval power that will stand as a model in our "time." General Eisenhower went on to rcrer to those who had sacrificed all in the struggle for freedom. He said no monument would so well express respect and veneration for their memory a S would the perpetuation of the spirit of the comradeshnp in which they had died.