Word: breakouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II, a Vichy government train was chugging through central France. Its freight: ten billion French francs (then worth $200 million) for the Bank of France in Limoges. At a tank stop the train was boarded by a gang of armed Maquis, who threw the moneybags into waiting trucks and disappeared into the night. When the Allies reached Limoges a few weeks later, they were feted by a bunch of exceptionally free-spending French partisans. Most freehanded of all was lusty, red-faced Colonel Georges Guingouin...
...week Ike's friends-and enemies-watched for that big, liberating moment of battle, the breakout. The moment did not come. General Eisenhower won no famous victories last week. It was probably unrealistic of Ike's supporters to expect any sensational developments, but they were nevertheless disappointed as they saw their hero fighting uphill in the face of strong Taft resistance...
...generalship, particularly that of Eisenhower and Bradley, was generally unimaginative and costly, and prolonged the war by insisting on a broad front in Europe. Montgomery could have won the war with one massive strike for the Ruhr after the Normandy breakout...
General de Lattre de Tassigny had promised Paris and the Pentagon that he would take Hoa Binh around January 1952. After the sweeping success of his breakout offensive (TIME, Nov. 19) De Lattre last week ordered his staff to prepare an immediate attack on Hoa Binh, was told it would take "at least eight days." Said De Lattre: "Do it in four." From the battlefield, TIME Correspondent John Dowling gave this report of how it was done...
...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...