Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
...Switzerland booksellers announced a reduction in the price of German war books: From the Karawanken Mountains to Crete from $1.25 to 40?; In Defiance of All Powers (the German High Command's official treatise on Nazi military philosophy) from 65? to 30?; Breakthrough in the West and Victory Over France from...
Americans have always been sure they are the very best people in the world and own all the very best things. Last week, in a long, angry post-mortem on Rundstedt's breakthrough, the New York Times' s military expert, Hanson Baldwin, gave a stiff jolt to this national pride...
...first three days of the breakthrough the weather was still a German ally. Then it deserted Rundstedt. From the fourth day until last week the Ninth Air Force had some clear hours every day to press home its attack on German motor columns and supply trains...
...Army's explanation: the situation after the breakthrough was so "fluid" that detailed stories would jeopardize plans for meeting the German offense. Correspondents said it less politely: the First Army had been caught with its pants down and the high command was trying to cover up. In a stormy session at Supreme Headquarters they told General Eisenhower's press chief, Brigadier General Frank ("Honk") Allen what they thought of SHAEF's news blackout...