August 16, 1944 (vol. 54, iss. 31) • Page Image 3
… WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1944 THE MICHIGAN fDAILY PAGE THREE Initial Resistance Fails To Materialize in Southern rance ndications Of Struggle Not Present By KENNETH L. DIXON Associated Press Correspondent WITH ALLIED FORCES ATTACK- ING SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug. 15 -Until a few hours before troops stormed ashore today in southern France, the coastal defenses of the underbelly of Hitler's Europe appear- ed about twice as tough as those en- coun...…