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THE CLAY PIGEONS OF ST. LO GLOVER S. JOHNS, JR. 257 pages, appendix, glossary. The Military Service Publishing Co., Harrisburg, Pa. $5.00
The Allied landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the largest amphibious assault yet to be undertaken in modern warfare. By the beginning of July, the operation had bogged down. The British on the left still had not taken Caen which was a D-day objective. The port of Cherbourg, badly needed to sustain the invasion, had fallen on 27 June, a week behind schedule, and was not yet cleared for port operations. The front lines should have been well beyond St. Lo. They were not. Instead, the US XIX Corps was several miles north of the town where our forces had been stopped since early June. Troops originally planned for use there had been more critically required to take Cherbourg. Yet, to break out of...