Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Normandy beaches beginning at dawn on June 6, 1944. Eisenhower soberly notes that if the Germans had rushed their forces from the Calais area to do instant battle in Normandy, they "might well have turned the scales against us." ' His second decisive battle is not, surprisingly, the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, but the buttoning up of the Falaise pocket in mid-August. Here again, Eisenhower appreciates his foe's mistake: "The enemy showed that fatal tendency to stand and fight when all the logic of war demanded a strategic withdrawal...
Please inform the writer of the article "Breakthrough," under caption "Weather" [TIME, Dec. 31], that it was a privilege to have endured the recent storms-inasmuch as it has given us the pleasure of reading his beautifully written account...
...Across the Atlantic, our only check, at Kasserine Pass [North Africa], was with our troops under foreign command. The blunders in Italy were not American blunders. The landing in Normandy was under command of General Montgomery, and General Bradley's famous breakthrough at St. Ló came only after the original plan of campaign had failed. Thereafter, all the victories, offensive and defensive, in France, Belgium and Germany were exclusively American victories...
Strategy. Such a formula would be a retreat from the wage-price line of defence against inflation. But Government economists looked upon it as a strategic retreat; they believed the line could be consolidated against any real inflationary breakthrough. They hoped the interim policy would bring order into reconversion at least until spring. And then...
...Badoglio behind the German lines. He got the loist command in England, jumped with the division in Normandy, led it through 73 days of combat to Nijmegen, where he was slightly wounded. In December, 1944, he was at his home in Arlington, Va., when word came of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes. He flew to France, led his division through the Battle of the Bulge...