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have the honor to announce to the Corps Commander
that Task Force C of the 29th Division
secured the city of St-La after 43 days of continual
combat from the beaches to St-L(>."
Although the city was captured, Task Force C
continued to receive severe enemy fire. The infantry
not posted at strongpoints had worked its
way through the battered streets to clear the
bombed remnants of the town from east to west
of any snipers or resistance pockets, few of which
were encountered. But the enemy continued to
pour mortar and artillery fire throughout St-Lo,
searching out points here and there as though
ENTRY INTO ST-LO. Men of Task Fora C go down a winding
street in a part 01 th e city tuherc damage is much less than near
the cenur-UlJlil German artillery opt'ns up (photQ /8 July) .
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moving methodically over a checkerboard. A
mortar shell caused the death of several men with
whom Colonel Ednie (now commanding the
"5th Infantry) was conferring at the CP, although
the colonel himself escaped injury. At
1930 General Cota was wounded by she ll fragments
and had to be evacuated. Capt. Sydney
A. Vincent, Jr., of Company B, 803d Tank Destroyer
Battalion, left his vehicle to coordinate the
activities of his tank destroyers and was killed.
A forward observer of the 29th Division Artillery
reconnoitered one of the spires in the church of
Notre-Dame as an observation post. He decided