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Both Patton and Hodges were 24 to 48 hours ahead of SHAEF communiques. General Eisenhower again had put a security blanket over their most advanced plunges. Front reports had Patton patrols near Strasbourg, near Saarbrücken ; placed Hodges' spearheads close to the Belgian-German border...
...Eisenhower could look ahead confidently to new phases. He named Major General Ivan Gerard to direct Belgian patriots. He rallied the Netherlanders' resistance under Prince Bernhard's leadership, urged them to block damage to Rotterdam and other ports. To Germany he said again: its war will be over in 1944. Unless the Wehrmacht could show more than it had in France, no snow would fall on the Battle of Germany...
...could have brought his Fifteenth Army down from Flanders and his Nineteenth Army up from southern France and drawn the Seventh Army back so that the three could form a new front along the Seine and the Loire. But this would have involved leaving the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian robomb coasts and southern France open to attack...
...force are in readiness from an hour before dawn to an hour after dark. It is a dangerous business: the R.A.F. rewards it by giving Distinguished Flying Crosses for every ten robombs downed. The highest individual score last week was 27 shot down, credited to Rene van Lierde, a Belgian...
...Monty had not yet tipped his hand. The Germans fear another Allied landing in force somewhere on the French, Belgian or Dutch coasts, and they must hold out enough strength to meet it. They know that the Allies could well put another major port to good use, and might drive for Le Havre...