Word: armorers
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...Germans finally retreated. To escape a trap they fell back in disordered ribbons toward Paris and the Seine. On the road back, the swift-striking armor, the crunching weight of Allied guns, the unequaled devastation from the air would have even greater play. The Germans in western France were ripe for annihilation...
...Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
Perhaps the German High Command had decided that Brittany would have to go. Brittany was not heavily held, and the deadly Allied air superiority made reinforcement impossible. U.S. armor passed over & around the defense like a freshet foaming over rocks. Inside his once-vaunted "wall" the enemy was incredibly soft...
Rommel had a concentration of guns, armor and Italians at El Hamma. Coningham turned loose nearly every medium and light bomber in North Africa on the still-cocky Nazi. For two and a half hours, sticks of bombs were continuously in the air. At the end of the breakthrough and the pursuit, Rommel had lost 300 tanks and vehicles, and his armored back was finally broken...
Preparation for Armor. The American offensive opened with one of the greatest aerial preparations in history. The bomb carpet was laid mostly on the Saint Lô-Périers road and beyond it in an area 2,000 yards wide and 9,000 yards in depth. Nearly everything in the bomber's book went into it-from 500-pounders carried by heavies to 23-lb. fragmentations scattered by mediums and fighters-a saturation of about ten bombs to an acre...