Crisp-Dooly-Pulaski County GaArchives News.....FORMER CORDELE BOY AMONG FIRST IN FRANCE ,GORDON P. AVERY June 7, 1944
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CORDELE DISPATCH June 7, 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,ACCORDING TO A 
RECENT NEWS RELEASE.
 AVERY, WHOSE HOME IS IN HAWKINSVILLE, IS A MEMBER OF THE GLIDER TROOPS AND 
LANDED IN NORMANDY WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION.
 HEADQUARTERS OF THE EUROPEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES 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 TO STOP THE LANDINGS.
 TO STOP THE RUSH OF GERMAN RESERVES,
 THE GLIDER TROOPS CAPTURED THE TOWN OF  STE MORE EGLISE AND FOUGHT FOR AND 
HELD FOUR BRIDGES OVER THE MORDERET RIVER AT LA FIERE AND AT CHEFDU PONT  AND 
OVER THE DOUVE RIVER AT PONTI ABBE AND AT BOUZEVILLE IN 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 LANDINGS 
IN SICILY AND ITALY, THEN FOUGHT SOME OF THE GREATEST BATTLES IN THE HISTORY 
OF THE 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 DAYSWITHOUT RELIEF OR REPLACEMENTS;THEY ACCOMPLISHED 
EVERY MISSION 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,RS. FLORIE COLLIER,MRS. MAMIE 
JACOBS,IN CORDELE; ANOTHER SISTER MRS. CLIO BROWN ,RESIDES IN VIENNA.



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