Hedge by Hedge

OMAHA BEACHHEAD (175 pp.)--Historical Division--War Department ($ 1.50).

By the time assault troops of the U.S. V Corps had struggled up the bluffs of Normandy and spilled out into the hedge-rowed fields beyond, advance elements of the Army's Information and Historical Service were already ashore. Their findings, just published, are the seventh in the Army's projected 25-volume series, American Forces in Action.

Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg.

The War Department and a crew of civilian historians in its employ are also at work on a final, integrated history of the Army's part in World War II. Probable date of publication: 1951.

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