by june 23rd, 24th, you are approaching the outskirts of cherbourg. you have thousands of german soldiers there. and this is a mish-mash group under the general, you have naval people and you have luft waft and, you have tanks and you mainly are relying for the germans upon built in fortifications, such as fort de roule, the center point of the entry outskirts to cherbourg and coastal fortifications and all of this. for the crowning assaulted on cherbourg, collins is going to do something quite unusual and to some extent innovative. the u.s. navy is helping sustain the entire beachhead regardless of talking about the british or americans, by guarding the beaches, where most of the real supplies are being landed, still, over omaha beach, primarily but you have a lot of powerful ships, cruisers, destroyers, and battleships that can be useful for any operation, and cherbourg, at cherbourg collins coordinates with the naval colleagues to have a fleet available that features two battleships and they will shell the german position in the harbor and tie done

there are supply boards like you see in that just like cherbourg. they're going to destroy the port cities when they have the chance. but the rest of patton's army will swing around eastward and patton is hoping to swing toward the landing beaches and snap that trap shut and join hands with the 21st army group, british and canadians coming from the other direction. originally this is the concept for the allies but bradley will tell them to halt and this is a controversial decision in normandy because it's thought of by some historians that allows germans to escape who otherwise might not have. well, regardless of that, you do end up with an encirclement eventually by about august 18, 1944. tens of thousands of germans had escaped, some tanks escaped, vehicles, equipment and the like but the two sides do join hands in a town called shambois. what's interesting about this, it's not a link up of americans and british. it's americans and polish. captain laughlin waters from the 90th division, company commander, is reconing ahead of his unit on that day

they arrived in cherbourg. there's a raise add alert there.amp shire police said if we do not locate him today, there are serious concerns for his life. he's receiving constant medical care in the uk due to recent surgery and ongoing issues. without the specialist 24 hour care, he's at risk for additional health complications placing him at substantial risk. they've launched an urgent appeal to locate the little boy. they're asking people with information to contact them. bbc news. >>> police in northern brazil say they're in the process of dismantling what they say is one of the country's biggest environmental gangs. the the group is accused of invading, burning, selling huge ars of the amazon forest. >> police call these men the biggest destroyers of the amazon rain forests. their arrests are a huge step forward in saving one of the world's natural wonders. the gang is accuse canned of causing hundreds of millions of of environmental damage. they've made millions more by invading, burning large areas of public land and selling these illegall

they utterly destroyed cherbourg. norththe long, awful slog begins. mountain after another.is made worse when those mountains are defended in the winter by 20 german divisions. this is a german propaganda leaflets. salerno 1943 at the bottom, and at the rate they are going, the projection is that they will get to germany sometime in 1952. this is not far-fetched. at the rate they are going. it certainly eats in the mind of every young g.i. trying to get through these mountains. the late fall and early winter of 1943 involves bloody fighting , atss the alternate river san ph row, and an endless sequence of monte's. german defenses are built in a series of belts across the app and i'm. narrow waistin the of the italian peninsula. the so-called gustav line centered on the 1500 foot sheer rock face of monte cassino. it is midway between naples and rome. monte cassino is crowned with a magnificent added. we found it in 529a.d by a wandering hermit named benedict. there is monte cassino. various efforts were made, all of them valiant, all of them unsuccessful, to get over or throu