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...further exploited, the Japanese position was not enviable. The bulk of their strength, estimated at several divisions, was concentrated on the northern flank for a breakthrough, presumably against the western outlet of the Yangtze gorges. Now this concentration, outflanked, its rear threatened, would either have to achieve that break-through within a minimum of time, or retreat...
...several days, armored units made a great show of preparing a break-through to the south of that sector, until the enemy placed his best armor, the remnants of his loth and 21st Panzers, oppo site the diversion...
Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...Break-Through by Air. The third ingredient of success was an air assault more devastating than any the Allies had ever tried in cooperation with ground troops, and perhaps more severe than any in the history of war. In two days Allied bombers and fighters flew 3,700 sorties (a sortie is one mission by one plane). An Allied communique claimed that planes "blasted a path in advance of our ground units," and there was no rhetoric in the claim. It was literally and dreadfully true...
...Africa Corps was counter attacking desperately all along the 40-mile desert front, fearing that the break-through by Australians at the north end of the line might result in a disastrous turning of the entire German left flank. Berlin reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had gone into the battlefield personally to direct strategy...