U.S. troops pass the ammunition in France. U.S.

U.S. troops pass the ammunition in France. U.S. troops use conveyer belts to stack up the huge quantities of ammunition which are pouring into northern France for the Allied Expeditionary Force's offensive against the Germans in Western Europe. Vast munitions dumps ware springing up in Noermandy to feed the Allied fire power, estimated by U.S. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson at four times that of the enemy. After his surrender on June 26, 1944, Lieutenant General Carl Wilhelm Dietrich von Schlieben, commander of the German garrison of Cherbourg, said: "I have never felt anything like the Allied bombardment."