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COMMUNIQUE NO. 176
 01 October 1944

CALAIS HAS BEEN CAPTURED.  THE COMMANDER WAS TAKEN PRISONER LAST
 MIDNIGHT AND BY EARLY MORNING THE MAIN BODY OF DEFENDERS HAD SURRENDERED.  MOPPING-
 UP OF SCATTERED ELEMENTS CONTINUES.

THE ADVANCE NORTHWEST OF TURNHOUT CONTINUED TO MAKE PROGRESS.

IN ALL SECTORS IN HOLLAND THERE WAS STEADY FIGHTING DURING YESTERDAY, WITH THE
 SITUATION GENERALLY UNCHANGED.  FIGHTERS AND FIGHTER BOMBERS ATTACKED RAILWAY WAGONS
 AND OTHER TRANSPORTATION TARGETS.  ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS ON THE WEST OF OUR SALIENT
 CONTINUED AND NORTHWEST OF NIJMEGEN THERE HAS BEEN HEAVY FIGHTING. COMMUNICATIONS
 AT ARNHEM AND NEAR GOCH, ACROSS THE GERMAN FRONTIER TO THE EAST, WERE ATTACKED BY
 ESCORTED MEDIUM BOMBERS.  TRAINS, BARGES AND MOTOR TRANSPORT IN THE RUHR AND NORTHERN
 HOLLAND WERE ATTACKED BY LIGHT BOMBERS DURING LAST NIGHT.  YESTERDAY STRONGLY ESCORTED ESCORT-
 ED [ESCORTED] HEAVY BOMBERS, IN VERY GREAT STRENGTH POUNDED THE RAILWAY YARDS AT HAMM, MUNSTER,
 AND BIELFELD [BIELEFELD] IN WESTERN GERMANY.  ALONG THE GERMAN FRONTIER BORDERING SOUTHERN
 HOLLAND AND BELGIUM, SLIGHT ADVANCES WERE MADE SOUTHEAST OF ROTGEN AND SOUTHWEST OF
 PRUM [PRÜM] [PRUEM], WHERE SEVERAL PILL BOXES WERE DESTROYED AND A NUMBER OF PRISONERS TAKEN.

SEVERAL SMALL ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS NORTHEAST OF NANCY AND AT JALLAUCOURT WERE
 REPULSED.

NORTHEAST OF EPINAL, THE TOWN OF RAMBERVILLERS HAS BEEN REACHED BY OUR FORCES
 AGAINST LIGHT RESISTANCE.  LOCAL GAINS WERE MADE EAST OF THE MOSELLE RIVER IN THIS
 SECTOR.  THE ENEMY HAS BEEN LAUNCHING COUNTER-ATTACKS AND HAS INTENSIFIED ARTILLERY
 FIRE.

NORTHWEST OF BELFORT A NUMBER OF VIOLENT COUNTER-ATTACKS WERE REPULSED AND OUR
 POSITIONS IMPROVED.



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D. R. JORDAN, Lt Col FA Ext. 9

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