Crisp-Dooly-Pulaski County GaArchives News.....FORMER CORDELE BOY AMONG FIRST IN FRANCE June 8, 1944
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CORDELE DISPATCH June 8, 1944
GORDON P.AVERY ,WHO SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS HERE,AND A BROTHER OF THREE CORDELE 
RESIDENTS ,WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO LAND IN FRANCE,ACORDING TO A RECENT NEWS 
RELEASE
AVERY WHOSE HOME IS HAWKINSVILLE,IS A MEMBER OF THE GLIDER TROOPS AND LANDED 
IN NORMANDY WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE EUROPEA THEATRE OF OPERATIONS OF THE US ARMY STATES THAT 
WHILE AMERICAN,ENGLISH AND CANADIAN SOLDIERS WERE WADING TO THE BEACHES OF 
FRANCE ON D-DAY,GLIDER TROOPS OF THE 82ND AIRBORNE INFANTRY DIVISION, WHO HAD 
LANDED HOURS BEFORE, WERE HOLDING OFF TWO FULL GERMAN DIVISIONS WHICH WERE 
TRYING TO BREAK THROUGH AND STOP THE LANDINGS.
TO STOP THE RUSH OF GERMAN RESERVES,THE GLIDER TROOPS CAPTURED THE TOWN OF 
STE. MORE GLISE AND FOUGHT FOR AND HELD FOUR BRIDGES OVER THE MORDERET RIVER 
AT THE LA FIERE AND RHE CHEF duPONT AND OVER THE DOUVE RIVER AT PONTI ABBE AND 
AT BOUZEVILLE LA BASTILLE.
IN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING THEIR ASSIGNMENT IN THE PLAN FOR THE INVASION OF 
THE CONTINENT,THE MEMBERS OF THE DIVISION ,MANY OF THEM VETERANS OF THE 
LANDINGS IN SICILY AND ITALY ,THEN FOUGHT SOME OF THE GREATEAT BATTLES IN THE 
HISTORY OF WAR. ONE FOURTH OF THE MEMBERS OF ONE REGIMENT OF THE DIVISION WERE 
AWARDED BRONZE STARS FOR INDIVIDUAL ACTS OF BRAVERY
THE UNIT FOUGHT FOR 33 DAYS WITHOUT RELIEF  OR REPLACEMENTS; THEY ACCOMPLISHED 
EVERY MISSION ASSIGNED TO THEM AND NO GROUND THEY GAINED WAS EVER 
RELINQUISHED , THOUGH CASUALTIES WERE HEAVY,NOTHING COULD STOP THEIR 
RELENTLESS DRIVE OR BREAK THEIR TENACIOUS HOLD.
AVERY HAS THREE SISTERS MRS. JAMIE CROOMS,MRS. FLORRIE COLLIER,AND MAMIE 
JACOBS,IN CORDELE,ANOTHER SISTER, MRS.CLIO BROWN,RESIDES IN VIENNA.

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