FRENCH GIRL SNIPERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25563, 16 June 1944, Page 3

FRENCH GIRL SNIPERS

'wives of german soldiers

LONDON, June 14

Two French girls, aged 16 and 18, tha wives of German soldiers, were handed rifles on D-Day by their husbands, and told “ Now, shoot for your • lives,” according to a Daily Mail reporter, who interviewed returned British wounded. The two girls killed five British soldiers as they sniped from the first floor window of a house near Tilly-sur-Seulles.

Corporal Charles Carme, a tank corps casualty, said he saw the girls at the window, and several of his. comrades lay around wounded or dying. “ Oh, yes, the girls died, too, when we stormed the house. They were good shots. They killed five of our men. They had been ordered to shoot to the last.” said Carme.

Myra, a Gentian girl, aged 21, who was captured at St-. Mere Eglise, and reported by her American guards to be a sniper, has arrived at a south coast port, says an official reporter. Myra’s American guard, who was armed with an automatic rifle, said: “I was tojd to be very wary of this prisoner. The guards who handed her over to us'said her method was' to smile at our soldiers, and pull a gun against them when they approached. She winged a few of them that way, so I am taking no chances.”