INFANTRYMEN FIRING ON THE ENEMY during the house-to-house fighting in Saint-Malo (top). Infantrymen prepare to fire on enemy positions in Saint-Malo with their .30-caliber Browning machine gun M1917A1 (bottom). During the rapid advances to the east, the fighting on the Brittany Peninsula was still going on. On 17 August the last Germans in the citadel of Saint-Malo had been captured, and the U. S. division taking the city was moved to the southeast to cover the Loire flank west of Tours.
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THE HARBOR AT SAINT-MALO. In the strongly defended forts in and around the harbor stubborn groups of Germans held out against the U. S. attacking forces.
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SWABBING OUT THE BARREL OF AN 81-MM. MORTAR M 1 before firing. During the battle of the Falaise-Argentan pocket U. S. artillery poured shells of all calibers into the pocket, and Allied aircraft hammered the Germans relentlessly.
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